@cshlan @grishka

I think that's the crucial point I was trying to make: while cheap and secondhand phones are very affordable, there's still a perception by wealthier people that a phone is a luxury that the impoverished don't need. Like most perceptions of the poor by the rich, this is false and exists to support preexisting biases.

[Here I trail off into a long screed talking about Graeber and how power creates information asymmetries.]