while you are right, security is generally not cheap.
you can get that $5 china fido key, but are you sure it's you who owns it?
I was recently looking for a security key, and eventually I did pay the yubico tax, because saving $20 by getting another one seemed unwise given the stakes.
Philosophers argued since 200 years ago, when the steam engine was invented, that technology is out of our control and forever was, and we are just the sex organs for the birth of the machine god.
100 local people to maintain the data center while it replaces 1 million people with the AIs running inside