Date: 2025-05-23

The price of nothing

You think the price is money. It's not. The price is you.
Complexity can be sold, silence cannot. You never pay with your
wallet.

Bloat is not a bug. It's a business model. Most systems are not built
for clarity. They are built to trap. Features added for marketing, not
for function.

Minimal is not cheap. It just stops charging you every day in energy,
in decision fatigue, in friction. You don't notice how expensive your
system is until it stops stealing your attention. Most modern systems
charging you not with money, but with attention.

Silence is the rarest thing in computing. Because you can't sell it.
Only choose it. Minimal system is pure and purity is not profitable.
No one profits from it, except you.

So the paradox is: silence costs nothing, yet it is the most valuable,
and in market logic, the least accessible, because it can't be
commodified.

There is no support ticket for the sovereign. No roadmap for the free.