Posted on 03/26/2022 1:10:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
Or the Canzerfaust.
They think they’re immune, that’s the funny part.
We will own nothing and they will be happy?
Progs, frantically believing their own propaganda.
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It is, but they are going to require you to carry your phone in order to have a job or to access your house and all that.
“Not like you “own” your phone anyway.”
Sorry, incorrect.
I absolutely own my 20 yr old 3G cell phone. Plus the battery is detachable to disable tracking.
Which is a big reason why 3G is being eliminated.
Ownership allows for personal responsibility and the building of assets over a life spent being productive. Their concept is an easy sell for those who have very little or are just getting started, but success would require culling the herd of people who still believe in the “antiquated” notion of property rights.
Well, if Klaus Schwab is for it, I'm against it.
But this author isn't making the best case against the WEF if he's trying to equate depreciating consumer items (like phones, home appliances, cars) with appreciating assets that can be acumulated over a life of productive labor. There are a few things like that, real estate being the most important for most people.
But leasing can be a good or a bad deal, depending on the pricing model and the individual. I have a friend who likes to drive a new model car all the time, and leasing makes a lot of sense for him. It's far cheaper for him to lease a new 7 series every few years than buy and sell. I like to keep a car for as long as it can run -- my current ride is a 2004 vintage Chevy Suburban, had it from new. Far cheaper for me to just pay cash and then keep it running.
It's not immediately clear how not having to buy a crummy new iPhone every two years (they never seem to last longer than that) and just leasing the current model sets one on the road to serfdom.
I was just wondering about that... if the old landlines still work. And the companies themselves!
No. 3G is being eliminated because downward compatibility is an albatross.
“With the monthly payments I’ve been making the past 2years, I thought I WAS renting it!”
Yep. And most people will rush out to get the next newest version of iPhone or Android as soon as they are done paying for it. Granted, they offer an “upgrade” at “discounted” price but people still end making monthly payments again for another two years, and the cycle repeats itself ad infinitum.
Personally, I purchase my phone at Walmart and use a “pay-as-you-go” plan (about $50/mo). The phone is great with all the features that I WANT & NEED and costs less than $100. If and when it breaks (happened only once in 7 years) or I want a newer version, I buy another for less than $100 and just switch out the SIM card.
It just doesn’t make sense to me to pay $30/mo. for 24 months for a phone that will be “outdated” in a year.
ONE of the reasons.
THE reason. Running 3 separate networks using different equipment different frequencies. You gotta cut off at some point. It’s 20 year old technology. Time to go away.
Why is 3G still usable in the rest of the world then?
I tend to upgrade my phone only when I can no longer use some features due to age/lack of support. My last phone lasted almost six years.
You mean the 3rd places where they don’t have 5G? The places with 5G are dumping 3G. Heck they’re even dumping the “emergency fallback” 2G. Nobody is going through all this trouble to track the 10 people in the world that disconnect their phone batteries. Nobody cares about them.
The great reset is not happening. The deepstate desperately wanted it but they are going down hard.
We even had to navigate using MAPS.
Yup. Most will like this idea, cheaper payments and newest, brightest tech on demand. In our circle we are the only ones who ‘own’ our phones. They are old and slow like us, but get the job done. This is just more fear porn for the masses.
I just got a new iPhone. My last one I paid for for two years and had it for eight years. I didn’t want to get rid of it but Apple was going to stop supporting the technology and Foxxcon, the company that makes them in China is shut down because of Covid and I was afraid of supply chain shortages so I went ahead and bought a new one. Or should I say rented it?
I’m sure you’re a tech genius . Please provide your proof that 3G is a significant cost factor in the continuum.
Kinda like landlines, broadcast Television and broadcast Radio. Not saying it isn’t a factor, but, your dismissal is not correct.
It’s called math. Each of the Gs runs on different infrastructure, using different frequencies. Funny you selected broadcast TV, remember the switch from analog to digital? Wasn’t that long ago. It was a SWITCH. Analog died. Too old, too crusty. Sometimes things have to move on. Also notice all those items you pointed to one company supports ONE item. Landlines are supported by the local phone company. TV network runs 1 broadcast in 1 region. Radio station runs 1 broadcast region. You want your cell company to run THREE infrastructures over the ENTIRE nation just you you don’t have to upgrade your phone.
Don’t need to be a genius at anything to understand this. It’s basic math. 4th graders can grasp this.
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