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the fact that there has to be a shitton of them is the clutter. Deorbiting them after their service life doesn't change the fact that at any one point there's a fuckton of satellites up there, messing up astronomy. And this is just the first of what will probably be several constellations.
Yes but see...
The users of starlink just pay for the costs Elon had to bring those satellites up there and keep them running.
The global costs aka total costs on society will be payed by us all.