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I've often wondered what it must be like for a 10-year-old these days. Especially lower income ones who go to schools where rich kids have smart phones and you'
by newswriter99 10y ago
I've often wondered what it must be like for a 10-year-old these days. Especially lower income ones who go to schools where rich kids have smart phones and you're stuck with some low-level bar phone or, the more obvious situation: no phone at all.
Must be hell.
- wolfgke 10y ago> Especially lower income ones who go to schools where rich kids have smart phones and you're stuck with some low-level bar phone or, the more obvious situation: no phone at all. Do you really want to have something to do with such "rich kids"? Even as a pupil I didn't. I always had interests that few other children at school were interested in. So I really don't consider this as a problem. P.S. School was hell, but for completely different reasons.
- scoot 10y agoMy 13 year old doesn't have a phone and is none the worse (and arguably much better) for it. His grandfather bought him a top of the range iPhone 7 for hist last birthday, but by his own choice, he's going to sell it and reinvest the capital so that when he actually needs a phone, he can buy whatever's current (or as he suggested the same model or lower model which in either case will be cheaper by then, so he'll save some cash.)
- psyc 10y agoWhen I was 10, it was the other kids wearing designer clothes, and excitedly discussing the intricacies of Nintendo games. Being excluded wasn't hell, but it wasn't great.
- dragonwriter 10y agoProbably no different than anytime else. The rich kids (like rich adults) always have visible status markers that the less wealthy lack.