Having a phone or laptop but living in a car or tent isn’t better than having an actual residence. People in the US can become homeless (lose job, run out of savings) and when they do, they will try to hang onto laptops and phones, since they are portable, valuable and very useful (looking for jobs, housing, social services, etc. ). You can get a cheap pay as you go phone for like $30 and hang onto it for years. Here in Seattle you can get work as a day laborer making around $16 an hour, so a cheap phone is attainable for anyone well enough to show up in the morning and dig ditches for a day. Meanwhile, you’d have a hard time finding even the crappiest little studio apartment with a shared kitchen for less than $1000 per month. And you usually have to have 3 months of rent to move in.

And they do, that's why resiging is becoming a viable option for workers, as far as I understand the US government gives you a financial support if you meet some criteria. And to be honest, if my country did the same thing I would rather have their financial support than being exploited for someone else's profit, that way I can actually live my life and work on whatever I like at my own pace.