Comment by account42
3 days ago
Often there technically are other options but this is still like saying you don't need to participate in society and can move to a cabin in the woods.
3 days ago
Often there technically are other options but this is still like saying you don't need to participate in society and can move to a cabin in the woods.
What’s the problem? Are you saying that people who live in cabins are doing something wrong?
I used to live in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. It has its downsides, but there were plenty of positives as well.
You can't see a difference between will and constrain? Force-feeding for example is torture, despite how much one may like eating.
Are you saying that you’re forced to use a smartphone? Because I don’t use one. It does make some things harder, but I don’t know what people are expecting. A law to ban smartphones? There’s not enough people who want that.
I do think we need rules that require businesses to accept cash, and to have alternative flows that don’t require smartphones for ordinary transactions (like buying food) or financial management. I also think we need to break up the duopoly and ensure that FOSS based devices can gain a foothold.
Unless more people go without smartphones, voluntarily, the friction in daily life is only going to increase for those of us who don’t use them. That means accepting a little bit of inconvenience from time to time, but you make up for it in other ways.
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