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Things are often optional until they are not. Smartphones are optional, but much of life -- say in Corporate America -- assumes you have one. Not by policy, but
by TuringNYC 6y ago
Things are often optional until they are not. Smartphones are optional, but much of life -- say in Corporate America -- assumes you have one. Not by policy, but by social expectation.
- Falling3 6y agoOne could argue that peer pressure and forced convenience are often more effective approaches than compulsion by the state.
- root_axis 6y agoIt's not a "forced convenience" it's a veritable one, hence the ubiquity of these devices.
- Falling3 6y agoIt's undeniably both. But the former was the focus of the discussion.
- root_axis 6y agoNo, it's not both, it's not forced by any conceivable definition of the word. Anyone claiming that society is forcing them to own a smart-phone is just making excuses for not wanting to give up the convenience, but nothing is actually stopping them from doing it.