[user5994461]

> For most people here, $500 is crazy. People in rural America tend to be poor.

They had the $500, they just chose to spend it on the latest iPhone.

[tomrod]

Maybe, maybe not. This does happen, of course, but I'm not sure it's generalizable.

[loeg]

Grandparent poster is just making a snarky comment based on recent events. (Republican) congressman Jason Chaffetz recently suggested that poor people should be able to afford healthcare if they skipped buying the latest iphone.