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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Lower income also correlates with increased network latency.

In the US, this is maps onto persistent income and wealth disparities between white and (specifically) black communities. Digital redlining is now A Thing:

https://themarkup.org/still-loading/2022/10/19/dollars-to-megabits-you-may-be-paying-400-times-as-much-as-your-neighbor-for-internet-service

When data is expensive and slow, you use less of it.