That's because people are use to facebook and other BS, one can live without these things just fine and even have a better life as a result.
No I'm talking about being able to message with family more easily that lives in a different country and friends that live in a different country, being able to make a picture of meaningful moments and memories. Being able to listen to music or watch a movie on my phone while I'm traveling to and from work without needing to carry an extra device for each thing. Being able to my banking on my phone without having to login into a computer to check on something or transfer funds from one account to another. Having apps where you can use to meet other people etc, I am not talking about Facebook.
People have lived just fine for thousands of years without this, what you outlined belongs to some last 3 decades only which is less than 0.0000001% of human history.
Yeah sure. But it's easier to keep contact with someone in another country by using phone chat apps because that's just more direct than writing an email or logging into MSN to chat because you don't have to sit behind a desk for it. Most people don't have time to sit by their pc anymore in the modern world and when they do it's for actual work but have their phones on them all day. That way I can still keep up with family I have living in the US. You can say what you want but without mobile phones I would have lost contact with my sister quite a few years ago or rarely been able to talk to her to see how she's doing because she has a busy job where she barley has any time free time and when she does she needs to get other shit than rather than sitting behind a computer.
Such is life of modern slaves I guess, it would be better for them to enjoy their life like their masters.
Family and friends are life. So it's good that we can use phone chat apps to keep more direct contact with them in a day and age where everyone has such busy lives and in some situations live in different countries than us. Also if everything wasn't so expensive life wouldn't have to exist of everyone having to work 80% of their week time, life was a lot cheaper 30 years ago, houses were affordable and a family could live off of the income of one person. Now it's near impossible to buy a house. The slave situation was also caused by everything becoming so expensive and now everyone living to work instead of working to live.
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Cause and effect. If life hadn't become so expensive for 99% of the population than there wouldn't have been the extreme need for new technology to make life a bit easier or lessen the load of your daily life with the busy work week everyone has and companies wouldn't have made so much money off of selling products and solutions to make life easier.
Richard Stallman in the video says that tracking on someones conversation should be a crime unless it's approved by the court and he's absolutely right.
Since I retired, We are quite happy without one, I have over the last 5 yeas closed several accounts as they now insist on a mobile phone number, I am not stupid enough to trust my banking [or details]to a ""Smartphone"" and never will,
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There is a possible workaround to this thorny issue .
I used LineageOS without Gapps for two years. The thing that made me go back to normal Android was that I ran into the some apps not working correctly without Google framework. The opensource framework that comes with LineageOS without gapps doesn't work correctly with all apps making some apps not fully functional, the same problem will be with GrapheneOS since I've heard it's even more private than LineageOS.There is a possible workaround to this thorny issue .
Perhaps we can actually "Have our cake , and eat it too "
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Have a look at GrapheneOS
Naomi Brockwell has a good presentation on this -
" How to De-Google your phone "
There are a few snags/obstacles of course ......
