Each to their own. Do you wear a seatbelt in a car? Carry a German identity card?
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Each to their own. Do you wear a seatbelt in a car? Carry a German identity card?
Couple of strange questions
But I'll answer them anyway - I haven't got a car as I can get from a to b quite well without one, so that answers the first one, I think 
I have a german ID card (and 2 passports). The point is that I do not want to be compelled into buying what I can well do without. Capitalism specializes in turning the 'luxuries' of one generation into the 'necessities' of the next just to keep the wheel of consumerism going round - and convincing people that they actually need things which they don't. I'm quite thankfull to live in a country which still pays in cash (which is more or less history in Sweden and a few other places) because I don't want to be placed in the credit card zwang either.
Couple of strange questions
It's an antediluvian attitude. Smart phones give people an ease of living and a connectivity that previous generations could only dream of. Of course, they must be used properly, and owners should not become a slave to them. The Far East embraces technology faster than we do. If the UK is left behind, it will suffer.
If only they made do with 30 p meals from food banks and used smart power meters...they would have plenty of money
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I would say 93% is a pretty large chunk of the population….but that might just be me
Ah, so you have to be rich to have an internet connection. This is not 1998, Beth. Homeless people have smart phones and call it their lifeline
Everyone has one apart from a few conscientious objectors who presumably still use pigeons
I imagine she is swiftly googling on her smartphone as we speak….
Stainsey ...stop being silly. I know quite a few people who are now on the breadline...selling their goods to heat their rented flat, selling their phones or computers to buy food.
I have just bought some art work from a guy who cannot pay his flat rental..
So what do you make of the statement "96% of Internet users having a smartphone ".
How many people on the breadline can afford a smartphone...when finding 30p for a meal is a problem.
Come the Tory revolution these people will be disenfranchised as they won't be able to vote.
I thought you at least could see through this
No one is saying that there isn’t poor people in the country or those on the breadline, and like you, I know a fair few…however your post stating that many “upright Britishers” cannot afford a smartphone is absolutely incorrect….most can and do.
As has been proven with the figure of 93% in total
Stop digging
Or old people….many of those who I see daily don’t have them
Do you really think that people communicate better with each other as a result Goldie ?