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so basically you're getting a surveillance device shipped straight to your living room.

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[-] ritswd@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

If you’re too broke to afford a TV, just watch on your phone or laptop.

Tell me you’ve never lived in poverty without telling me you’ve never lived in poverty.

[-] Hogger85b@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

It's the modern day...they have no bread
...then let them eat cake

[-] Neato@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

My phone doesn't have a screen...

[-] ritswd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That’s exactly it. When I was dirt poor, basically half of the people around me had a phone with a cracked screen, and a good amount of that also had batteries that didn’t last much at all. Not only was it a constant game of finding a public power outlet whenever you’d be out for a while, but even staying home, you couldn’t do much of anything that would drain your battery too hard. There was a thing at the time where some phones had batteries that kept turning off unless you hit them on the side until they worked again, but it was a while ago so maybe that was solved by manufacturers since.

It’s incredible now that I live in a middle class neighborhood, how literally every single phone is perfectly functional. It really does change everything.

Anyway, that kind of population would happily get a free TV with ads. Now whether it is the kind of population that those ads would be most effective on is another question, since they basically have zero spending power.

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