Best Buy Says It Has Killed 'Showrooming' For Good

[MADem]

133. Plenty live on far less, you know. If they are in subsidized housing, their check is reduced.

Many are living on, for all intents and purposes, around a hundred bucks and change a week. That's for everything. Without MoW and food pantry and other elder services, they would go hungry.

It's not a question of being "poor enough," either--but unless you're very young, you didn't have to deal with the Digital Divide, which is cutting a large swathe of our society out of the picture.

If you are young enough to have dealt with it, it might explain some of your "survival of the fittest" attitudes.

I think we ARE likely to fix this problem--we would have had it whipped had not President Gore been robbed. We instead were set back eight years' of war worth, and the attendant debt that followed along with all that. But I'm not willing to cede ground.

The new paradigm that is away from desktops and towards tablets and other simpler machines is only a small part of the equation. We, as a nation, are poorly wired. We need to make internet better, faster and CHEAPER. That's the key, right there. And then we need to educate--but the very old, the people in their 80s and 90s, they aren't ever going to get wired--it's too late for them.

Which is why I think BB shouldn't fuck them over.