Cell Phone Follies

I pointed to Malcolm's idiocy yesterday, but Jesse has more. You regularly see this kind of nonsense, especially from older people, about poor people generally. You know, stuff like "how can they be poor if they have a teevee!" even though non-flat screen televisions can be gotten on craigs list for the price of hauling it away. People are slow to adjust to the idea that the price of new technologies tumble very fast, so they still see cell phones as some expensive luxury item even though the phones themselves are basically free and the cheapest pay as you go plans are, you know, cheap. And that's even aside from the general cluelessness about the fact that it might be pretty high priority for someone without a fixed address to have a fixed telephone number.