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The poorest country I'm familiar with is Zambia, where about 90% of the population have a mobile subscription. The number of people sharing GP's concerns for r
by roryirvine 8d ago
The poorest country I'm familiar with is Zambia, where about 90% of the population have a mobile subscription.
The number of people sharing GP's concerns for reasons of poverty rather than because of their personal security posture will be vanishingly small.
- arcfour 8d agoI'll have to remember this one the next time I hear the phone/poverty argument made in bad faith.
- rcxdude 8d agoThey still exist, though. And in my experience people in vulnerable positions have somewhere between zero and one phones at any given time, without necessarily any good continuity between them.
- kps 8d ago> The poorest country I'm familiar with is Zambia, where about 90% of the population have a mobile subscription. Only 85%¹ of the population are over the age of 4. Smart kids they've got. ¹ https://populationpyramids.org/zambia https://populationpyramids.org/zambia
- stonogo 7d agoI don't think "fuck 10% of the population" is as strong an argument as you seem to think it is.