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    2 hours ago

    it’s easy to understand if you grew up in this country under similar circumstances.

    when i was young, i remember feeling that my family was superior over every one else in my neighborhood because we traded in a car for an x386 w internet access and nobody else had any computers nor internet access, and the behavior of the others because of it reinforced that feeling for me. i imagine that owning the newest iphone is the modern day equivalent.

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        2 hours ago

        it reaches a tragic and ludicrous level when you have to convince a young parent that their child can’t survive on school cafeteria food alone for several months in order to buy another iphone to replace a broken one instead of buying an $100 android.