I’m assuming the rest of the people who fly American have gold plated toilets and feed their purebred dogs filet mignon because the prices for WiFi are bananas. 

$17 for wifi on this flight?  Are you out of your mind?  Two hours of Internet?  The saddest thing is that people are clearly paying it – I’m guessing AA hasn’t been offering this at $17 a flight, never had a customer and are wondering where they went wrong. 
And, given that my flight had a connection, I would have needed to purchase it twice, meaning my three total hours of flying time breaks down to internet at more than $11 an hour.
$11 an hour to watch cat videos and argue with strangers on the Internet. That seems reasonable.