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Lol, wait until Elon and everyone else sets off the Kessler Syndrome. There won’t be shit up in the sky after that.
Starlink satellites are too low to pose that problem. They're designed to deorbit in 5 years, anyway. Broken ones would probably do so even sooner
When other debris hits them or parts of them break off, some fragments will have lower mass and slightly different trajectory and therefore may change into higher orbit.
And simply due to physics, those will be the exception and not the rule, and so not enough to cause Kessler Syndrome.