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0 pointspostingpals5y ago0 comments

We actually can give everyone a phone since there are well over 8 billion in circulation.

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By taking them from whoever owns them already? That's still popular petty street crime tactics in 3rd-world countries.

No, we can just give people used phones. We have such a surplus of some things that we can actually redistribute them in a non-zero sum way.

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0 pointspostingpals5y ago0 comments

We actually can give everyone a phone since there are well over 8 billion in circulation.

By taking them from whoever owns them already? That's still popular petty street crime tactics in 3rd-world countries.

No, we can just give people used phones. We have such a surplus of some things that we can actually redistribute them in a non-zero sum way.

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