I don't see what his issue is with the equipment. Sure, Verizon could choose to forgive the replacement fees, or decide that after 4-6 years they're not worth anything anyway (fact), but they're under no legal obligation to do so. Where he's got a case is with the service charges which have been accumulating since February, despite the fact he informed Verizon in February. He should have hit that point harder, not the old equipment point.

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I agree that eventually we'll get to the point where it simply isn't possible for every citizen to work. I don't think that means we'd have to go to socialism though. You can accomplish the same goals that socialism would tackle by using a Negative Income Tax, without the drawback of giving complete control to the government on deciding whose work is most valuable.


Once you've developed an automated workforce you'll be looking at a planet with probably 10 billion people, 9.5 billion who will likely have no access to a job of any kind.

By that point your glorious Negative Income Tax would serve no purpose.

Doing away with money all together will be the only effective way of dealing with society at that point.

As it stands, we have the technology and resources to provide a much greater quality of life for every person on the planet, but few are willing to sacrifice the false sense of superiority they derive from their wealth. So we continue to prop up a failing economic system, maintain pointless class separations, encourage debt, propagate false scarcity and let millions suffer poverty needlessly, so that rich people can substitute the fact that they're miserable people by driving Mercedes cars and wearing Prada.

The saddest part is that those same greedy scumbags have convinced enough of the lower class shlubs, that it's your own fault if you're not as rich as they are because you're either too stupid or two lazy, and you should work harder because if you're not rich you're not worth anything. And unfortunately enough people have fallen for their bullshit that they continue to facilitate the same system that exploits them and keeps them down.