That's quite some crystal ball you have there! If the internet were that fragile, it would have lost to Compuserve and Prodigy. Do you remember them?

Instead, just like pay-for-placement helped pay for city daily newspapers, free-over-the-air radio and TV, and storefront bookstores, pay-for-priority on the internet could subsidize new last-mile capacity and services. But based on concocted nightmare scenarios, net-neutrality regulators want to preclude all experimentation into such models.