Isn’t that basically what it’s like already?

You can have free gmail, consumer edition. With ads, no privacy, etc.

Or G Suite. Which includes gmail, docs, calendar, etc, for $6~ (I’m seeing $7.80 CAD) Per month.

Making it about half the $200 you quoted, but none the less, possible.

Seems to me that 200 dollars is what Google owes me for the privilege of selling my data to advertisers.

I don't work at Google, I might be wrong, and I strongly dislike the company. But from what I've gathered they're on my "lesser evil" side of the data-gathering game, in that they don't appear to actually sell it.

My understanding is that what they actually sell is their ability to serve and target advertisers' ads, using the massive amounts of data they gather by violating their users' privacy.

Unlike these ISPs, who just sell the data itself, or Facebook who just gave it away for free for years.

You're correct. They have never sold information as the parent commenter is claiming.

~$17 a month seems kinda steep, but I would definitely pay something to have a fresh, ad and tracking free, fully private suite of these products with a guarantee that I'm not being spied on.

G Suite costs $6 per month.

"G Suite customers own their data, not Google. The data that G Suite organizations and users put into our systems is theirs, and we do not scan it for advertisements nor sell it to third parties." "There is no advertising in the G Suite Core Services, and we have no plans to change this in the future. Google does not collect, scan or use data in G Suite Core Services for advertising purposes."

https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...

I wanted proof, not promises. I want to know the they cannot scan my data if I pay, not that they promise not to.

That's why I'm so interested in projects like ProtonMail and Bitwarden. I want E2E encrypted versions of everything, and I'm willing to pay for it.

Yes, do no evil is gone.