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Re:That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and p... by laumars on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @10:13AM (#11344593)
I'm not judging. I'm just saying £20/m is a lot to some people to counter the point made previously that the investment was only small.
Re:That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and p... by cloverich on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:01AM (#11345077)
To be clear, I never intended to say that 20 Euro a month would be affordable for everyone. I"m only saying its an objectively small sum of money in a first world country, and we could reasonably imagine some otherwise poor people fitting it into their budget (unlike a Rolex, a nice car, etc.). Especially if we believe a person would consider it their most important possession -- they can have the (debatably, I use a Nexus) best version of their most desirable possession without going outside their budget. I've known plenty of hard-working budget conscious poor people who have saved up for possessions they very much wanted -- nobody ever said being poor means you can't have anything nice. It just means you can't have everything nice.