• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I see, so which country do you live in where impoverished people can afford to buy a new phone every few years?

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      7 months ago

      Hello from your South superpower neighbor, Brazil. We have free healthcare, free higher education, acceptable welfare, loads of dumb people and cheap chinese products. On the plus side, at least our electricity is overwhemingly green.

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        7 months ago

        Oh, so you mean poor people replace their crappy phones that only last a few years when they break.

        And you think they shouldn’t do that.

        Got it.

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            7 months ago

            You:

            I do give a shit if you buy a new tablet every couple years when the old one works just fine.

            Me:

            Buying a new tablet every couple of years: something poor people notoriously do.

            You:

            Swap tablet for phone, and the answer is yes.

            So it sure sounds like you’re saying that poor people shouldn’t buy a new phone when their shitty phone breaks in a couple of years to me. Because the old one never works just fine on account of it being a shitty phone. Which you should know what with your apparent intimate knowledge of global poverty.

            Weird how your insult doesn’t reflect what you’ve said so far.

            Also, I have not insulted you once. Are you really unable to have a conversation without insulting people? Is this how you talk to people when you’re in the same room with them?

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              Because the old one never works just fine on account of it being a shitty phone

              I used a Moto G, an entry-level phone, for 5 years. My next phone, also entry-level, I kept for 4 years. My current phone is a low-tier flagship, which I’ve also had for a while. Tell me again how is it that you need a new one every two years?

              Which you should know what with your apparent intimate knowledge of global poverty.

              I’m guessing you’ve never been hungry? I have, so I’ll take my experience with poverty over yours.

              Also, I have not insulted you once.

              Except you have, by implying I’m stupid enough to fall for your fallacious argumentation.

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                  7 months ago

                  Oh yeah, choosing to not eat is totally the same as not having any food, they’re totally comparable experiences! /s

                  Your privilege is showing.

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                    7 months ago

                    It’s weird that you called me illiterate when it’s fairly apparent that you didn’t get past the headline.

                    I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be at the top hospital in the nation right now if I was choosing not to eat.

                    https://lemmy.world/post/13867999

                    Or is this like saying someone with clinical depression is choosing not to be happy?

                    But sure, I’m highly privileged to never be able to eat anything no matter how much I want to. What a privilege.