How is it a requirement? I have friends that don’t have a smartphone as well. Or cable. Or Netflix. And yet lots of people who seem upset at the state of things

How is it a requirement? I have friends that don’t have a smartphone as well. Or cable. Or Netflix. And yet lots of people who seem upset at the state of things happily spend on all these same unnecessary goods and services. If anything it points to the fact that these things are more important to them than things people are claiming are necessities or “rights”, such as healthcare.