We lost our freedom* to use rotary phones decades ago yet we have still survived. Mobile phones were originally owned just by early adopters, but I’ll take a guess that you own one today.
*If manufacturers stopped making internal combustion vehicles today, there’d still be a vast market for service stations for years to come. You’d have the freedom to drive your 1970 Buick GS with the 455inch block for many thousands of miles.
“We lost our freedom* to use rotary phones decades ago yet we have still survived.”
Much Like Vinyl, Rotary Phones Are Making a Comeback — Here Are 12 You Can Buy Online
https://www.yahoo.com/news/much-vinyl-rotary-phones-back-230002691.html
By the way, I’m hungry. *picks up receiver* Sarah, could you connect me to Papa John’s?
RE: making a guess I own a mobile phone today....
Not really.
I have a landline phone and a burner phone for car emergency calls only. (”Burner phones are also used by criminals to evade detection by authorities.”)
One site says:
There is often no registration required when purchasing the devices along with prepaid minutes, which makes tracing calls by law enforcement or a government agency nearly impossible.
License plate cameras on the route may have captured your license plate and recorded your movements. A camera in the store may have recorded you buying the phone. Your credit card company will have a record of you buying the phone.
Traditionally, Burner phones were prepaid mobile devices that you could throw away (or “burn”) once their purpose was served. These devices were particularly popular for people who wanted their phone calls and messages to be completely untraceable.
I believe the “right” to own an obsolete gas engine car will be useless if the oil companies are forced out of business and the gas stations closed down. And no license tab renewals or auto insurance allowed by federal law soon.