Everything needs to be an outrage, if you want to do things maturely you can find a $10 a month phone plan. You can then find a nice phone, like a really nice p

Everything needs to be an outrage, if you want to do things maturely you can find a $10 a month phone plan. You can then find a nice phone, like a really nice phone for games and all that good stuff for about $100 new. Even though I make very good money, I'm very strict about how much I spend on my phones. I use mint sim and for two lines I pay about $40 a month, I have 10 gigs per line. I only buy my phone's cash, and while recently I have treated myself to a new pixel 6, I was doing just fine with a $300 phone. And that's closer to the high end, but I've definitely seen people walk to T-Mobile and buy three or four iPhones, then get into really nasty loud arguments when they can't make their $300 a month bill. As a side note, I absolutely hate how everything needs to be a social justice issue. Saying that companies like DoorDash expect you to have a working cell phone, and this is extremely oppressive doesn't do anyone any favors. But then we run into Wired's incentives. They need clicks, writing nonsense gets them that.