I am lucky to live in a country in which a large religious population eschews the smartphone, so saying "I don't have one" is acceptable and common here. But I have colleagues who tell me that they are expected to have a smartphone from everything to banks to government services to simple small restaurants.
But then I remembered, I already belong to a religion that makes the ownership of a smartphine quite unconscionable to me.
Indeed I wrote about how even a religious objection is unnecessary when there's a knock-down argument on the grounds of what is merely patently unethical.
> are expected to
I find these "expectations" come from those who didn't read Dickens.
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