It isn’t just the poor. I have a couple of friends who didn’t upgrade or get new TV’s and they are solidly middle class. One of them doubts she will get the TV fixed. She and her husband are having such a good time without the TV, she doesn’t want it back. They’ve been married about 25 years and she feels like it’s a second honeymoon.
You’re right of course. I made a lame attempt at a joke (”Disaster: Women, children, and the poor hardest hit!”).
Over the years I put up with mediocre TV because I never took it too seriously and, as often as not, would only have the TV on for background noise.
I’m finding that I can live without it at all quite nicely thank you! (Not sure that I could say the same of the Internet however!)