[dangus]

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.

[pjc50]

> 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?"

[dangus]

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.

[kugurerdem]

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.

[dangus]

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.