that does help me understand what your point is, thanks. but I still disagree that it means that there is zero friction. it's true that legal protections are not to be counted on. but neither are they completely irrelevant. whoever the adversary might be (and without knowing who that is we can't calculate risk can we?) isn't just co-opting Google and Amazon compute arbitrarily. I understand that you mean that there is *potentially zero friction* at the point where they have taken the gloves off and want to destroy you. and that's worthwhile knowing. it's just not the actual situation right now. but it's certainly worth reflecting on in the Monero community that, if compute is as centralized in large data centers as you say, then regardless of how many plebs are mining themselves, the network is still vulnerable.

Again the point of the risk analysis is not to look at when things are going well. Instead to consider the potentially catastrophic situations and your exposure. You dont calculate risk that's how you get 2008. You cant know what will happen but you can try to understand the structure of how things are. With enough time you will hit all of the extreme situations and the only this that matters is if you can survive