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I had a buddy that smoked a lot.
He knew the over many years he had puffed away enough to buy a car, but cigarettes are addictive.
Smartphones are like that. The average Verizon bill was $148 in 2013.
I had a buddy that smoked a lot.
He knew the over many years he had puffed away enough to buy a car, but cigarettes are addictive.
Smartphones are like that. The average Verizon bill was $148 in 2013.
Yes but unlike cigarettes, cell phones are a need if even the dumbphones. Cigarettes are a choice with little economic gain to the individual. Cell phones are more like say food. You can eat too much food but without it, you die. Without a cell phone, you have to either bum one off someone or hope there are payphones and courtesy phones if you aren't at home.
There's no way I'd leave a $600 phone in my car where it could easily be stolen, and the thought of leaving it at home is absolutely ridiculous. What happens if my car breaks down, especially in a remote area? Do you think I will find a handy pay phone nearby? They don't exist anymore. The whole point of having a cellphone is to have it with you.
However, I can understand not allowing employees to excessively play around with their phones at work.
However, not all phone usage at work is frivolous:
I think a better question is why does anyone need a $600 phone in the first place?
I see minimum wage workers(as one poster already mentioned) glued to their phone any chance they get, talk about priorities. These are the people who should be using track phones that you can pay as you go. How much of their weekly paycheck goes to the phone?
Even if you're making a very good salary to spend that kind of money on a phone is foolish, I know two people who have dropped them and they shatter easily. One had insurance(imagine insurance on a cell phone) and still had to pay $150 additional.
I have a $30 Verizon flip phone, works fine for me, I have dropped myself and the worst that happens is the back pops off.
An even better question is why is it anyone's business why someone else needs something or how much they paid for it?
Well you see when you here people whine about how they have no money, but have expensive things like $600 phones or even $300 phones, it becomes my business. I have a family member like this.
Better yet, when I see people here in CA who are on the dole and getting EBT, yet they have tablets and smart phones, it becomes my business, because you see as a CA taxpayer I'm helping pay for that. Let them get a basic phone.
Now, I will give you if someone can afford a $600 phone, pay their own way, pay all their bills, than you're right.
Well you see when you here people whine about how they have no money, but have expensive things like $600 phones or even $300 phones, it becomes my business. I have a family member like this.
Better yet, when I see people here in CA who are on the dole and getting EBT, yet they have tablets and smart phones, it becomes my business, because you see as a CA taxpayer I'm helping pay for that. Let them get a basic phone.
Now, I will give you if someone can afford a $600 phone, pay their own way, pay all their bills, than you're right.
I can agree that we can decide to buy cheaper phones, but with that said, you can get a $600 phone dirt cheap. As a matter of fact, my last two phones were both under $2 with tax and they both were Galaxy smartphones.
Even if you're making a very good salary to spend that kind of money on a phone is foolish, I know two people who have dropped them and they shatter easily. One had insurance(imagine insurance on a cell phone) and still had to pay $150 additional.
I have a $30 Verizon flip phone, works fine for me, I have dropped myself and the worst that happens is the back pops off.
Should I not buy a computer and write everything on paper because a notebook is cheaper and won't break when I drop it?
A flip phone is just a phone. I probably don't make a three phone calls a week on my phone. It's the rest of the stuff that matters. Even if all the phones were $600 and you had to throw them into a corn grinder every year, they'd still be worth the money. That's about $4/day (counting the plan). Just for the time saved riding the bus (I have an app that knows where the bus is while the people with paper time tables only know where it is supposed to be) it is worth more than that. Plus, I don't have to carry a book to read on the bus because there's a few dozen on my phone. And those are small matters compared to the time, effort, and expense saved by being able to email (and make simple edits to documents) without having to get to a computer.
Not that I recommend the $600 models, but not spending money on a smart phone is a false economy unless you don't actually have to work enough that your time is valuable or you're not smart enough to use it.
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Nice find. Thank you for the article.
My new move is to shut off the phone after 5PM…and it has been wonderful.
YOU fear healthy relationships and are probably married to your phone. From your other posts, confessing you spend more than 3 hours per day on your phone indicates YOU are part of the problem, not to mention your professed desire to "get the bare minimum done" statement in that same post. THAT is exactly what he was referring to in his statement....you really don't care about your job.
The only "change" I fear is unhealthy trends in society as a whole.....
PierceMarx is probably a Marxist. I also suspect this person is a typical American college student. No matter how much you point out illogical behavior or bugs in a system, people like PierceMarx will not change their minds or see reason.......and they often tend to make laughable generalizations.
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