Starlink crossed ten million subscribers in early 2026 precisely because it solves a real problem for ordinary people: broadband where nothing else reaches. It connects rural homes, farms, ships, planes and remote communities, and provided critical connectivity through natural disasters and across Ukraine during the war. Through Direct-to-Cell with T-Mobile it now reaches standard phones in dead zones for around $10/month. It isn't free, but it competes on price with other rural options and reaches places terrestrial networks never will. Governments, airlines, maritime operators and emergency services depend on it. "A toy for the rich" describes neither its price nor its ten million users. If anything, Starlink's value is greatest for the people furthest from wealth and infrastructure — rural clinics, island schools, disaster zones and farmers who previously had no usable internet at all. Calling a service that finally connects the unconnected a luxury for the rich inverts who actually benefits most.