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I guess “unfair and unbearable” is paying your rent at the last minute after business hours on a phone with 2012 specs. Wouldn’t want to plan ahead and pay on time or pay with a check or pay with autopay or pay with a laptop or pay with a computer at the library for free.

You say it’s not an objective statement about the state of tech and I would agree: it’s highly subjective, a literally made up story, and a dumbass opinion.

Getting a phone capable of doing an online bill pay is trivial. Literally free with a discount shit cheap phone plan.

The victim mentality will destroy you if you let it take over.

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> Getting a phone capable of doing an online bill pay is trivial. Literally free with a discount shit cheap phone plan.

No matter how cheap your phone is, if you're poor someone will always judge you because your phone is too expensive.

"Why do you have a more recent phone that 2012 if you're on benefits?"

I don’t think this has been true in the last 5-8 years where phones are incrementally different and essentially look identical.

I saw an ad yesterday for a free iPhone 13 with a discount carrier and that phone is almost indistinguishable from the current iPhone on sale.

The thing is, until he said it was a made-up story, I thought it was real. This shows that things like that started to become the real norm.

I also don't think the author is in a victim mentality, it is more like a reminder to other developers that they can do so much better.

Just because the story is believable doesn’t mean that the people who are in the story are without responsibility or fault.

When you get into a lease agreement you should know how to pay going into it. If your landlord doesn’t take a form of payment you can handle you don’t sign the lease in the first place. That’s your life responsibility as a functional adult. Paying rent every month isn’t a surprise. Being low on funds isn’t an excuse and being low on funds isn’t the issue at hand.

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