Not having a smartphone is a new status symbol flex.
The poorer you are, the more of your life you must waste looking at a screen instead of gazing upon beautiful landscapes and friendly faces.
Still it’s a step up as usual. Next stage will be probably those too poor to afford anti aging vs the muti centenarians that can.
And yet those that can’t afford multi centenarian lifestyle will live super well compared to today poorer class. Hunger, true hunger is eliminated where I live at least. Healthcare too is rather universal.
Good country.
And yet people will be furious at this inequality of lifespan and everyone understands it deeply as „dystopia”.
Medieval peasant would thought he is in heaven and yet we live in a dystopia and that is widely understood and I concur.
> Not having a smartphone is a new status symbol flex.
It’s pretty much like those vegans people tend to make fun of: it’s performative. It’s humble-brag-fuelled activism that craves audience approval.
> The poorer you are, the more of your life you must waste looking at a screen instead of gazing upon beautiful landscapes and friendly faces.
"Must", perhaps. But plenty of people of any wealth are addicted