Or, sometimes people who are poor have to constantly buy new phones because they frequently can’t keep up with the payments.
When you lose service for nonpayment, you may have few options other that to buy a new phone (as part of a service plan) once you can afford it.
Still the point is that it’s an essential item and it’s kind of a jerk move to be judgemental about that when billionaires got richer faster than any other time in history through the pandemic.
Buying a new tablet every couple of years: something poor people notoriously do.
Swap tablet for phone, and the answer is yes.
The answer is no there too. I don’t think you understand what ‘poor’ means. Many of them have phones that are subsidized.
For example- https://www.lifewireless.com/plans/minnesota-lifeline-free-phone-service
Poor people don’t buy phones every few years because they’re poor.
Or, sometimes people who are poor have to constantly buy new phones because they frequently can’t keep up with the payments.
When you lose service for nonpayment, you may have few options other that to buy a new phone (as part of a service plan) once you can afford it.
Still the point is that it’s an essential item and it’s kind of a jerk move to be judgemental about that when billionaires got richer faster than any other time in history through the pandemic.