In China, you can’t exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the future and I hate “progress”.

  • ULTIMATEDEAD@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Yes and no. I can still pay with cash and live a normal live without owning a smartphone. I can still buy paper train tickets etc.