[dzhiurgis]

> I’d pay at least a dollar an hour to always use a nicer phone

That's 75% of a minimum wage in Montana.

[lonelappde]

Units error and fact error.

Min wage in Montana is $8.50/hr .

And it's probably not healthy to be on your phone 8hrs a day.

But if you are, then a $1000 phone is only 25cents/hr over 2 years, when you can resell your phone for half price.

[dzhiurgis]

Saw some map showing Montana min wage is $4. Even if you use your phone 8hrs a day (a ton of people do for work), you own it for 24. So that's $24 a day.

It all a bit pointless math for HN crowd, but it does give some perspective - there are places where pay is very low and you don't even need to look far. People do actual work on their phones there.

[djannzjkzxn]

The US has a federal minimum wage of $7.25. Maybe some state has a lower minimum wage law, but if so it isn’t in force.

If I were making minimum wage I’d probably be more in the “buy an iPhone SE every 4 years” rather than “buy a top iPhone every 2 years” category.

But if I are going to critique other people’s spending patterns, I’d start with anyone who bought a new car, not a phone.

[dzhiurgis]

Someone has to buy them, but I always are shocked how people can afford them, especially at something like 10% interest rate.