I rode a city bus today. Almost everyone had a smartphone and was playing a game or on Facebook.

Your point?

You rode on a city bus and unless you're at the public library you have a computer or a smart phone. Should I be outraged?

Maybe the people are saving their money riding the bus so they can afford smart phones and fake coach purses. My brother is a dead beat but he can afford 40 bucks a month and the phone was free. Facebook is free. I guarantee I could take one look at you at come up with 10x more negartive generalizations.

Do you understand how cheap a smartphone can be?

More importantly do you understand that the city bus is not just for poor people?

Bus driver too?

dfascfsfsefse wrote:

More importantly do you understand that the city bus is not just for poor people?

You can tell if someone is poor. These people were most certainly poor.

Piketty wrote:

dfascfsfsefse wrote:

More importantly do you understand that the city bus is not just for poor people?

You can tell if someone is poor. These people were most certainly poor.

0/10 rich people dress trashier than poor people now days.

Positive Contribution wrote:

Piketty wrote:

You can tell if someone is poor. These people were most certainly poor.

0/10 rich people dress trashier than poor people now days.

They were black.

Positive Contribution wrote:

Piketty wrote:

You can tell if someone is poor. These people were most certainly poor.

0/10 rich people dress trashier than poor people now days.

Um, no. Casual /= trashy, in either clothing or behavior.

smartphones can be had for nothing nowadays and people have cell phones instead of home phones. you can play games on smartphones for free. facebook is also free. The facts about income inequality are there for everyone in the "reality-based community" to see.

Piketty wrote:

dfascfsfsefse wrote:

More importantly do you understand that the city bus is not just for poor people?

You can tell if someone is poor. These people were most certainly poor.

You can tell if someone is intelligent. You are most certainly not intelligent.

Piketty wrote:

Half the women had coach purses.

Why do we redistribute income again?

We don't. The richest people in the country control pretty much all of the wealth. How has this news not reached you??

Piketty wrote:

Almost everyone had a smartphone.

...

Half the women had coach purses.

..

These people were most certainly poor.

I read somewhere that a good proportion - a quarter? half? of americans spend more on entertainment and technology than they spend on food

probably a good thing for people to cut out if they can't make ends meet

A lot of cell carriers now only offer smart phones. I shopped around for an old style cell phone for my elderly father whose vision has deteriorated so he can't really make use of a smart phone. I eventually gave up and got him a cheap smart phone that he just uses to make calls.

agip wrote:

I read somewhere that a good proportion - a quarter? half? of americans spend more on entertainment and technology than they spend on food

probably a good thing for people to cut out if they can't make ends meet

Considering most Americans are overweight anyways. This could be a good way for them to lose some fat.

That's pretty disturbing.

I always liked making casual conversation on buses, in airports, stuff like that. Smartphones have pretty much killed that off, though.

Piketty wrote:

Half the women had coach purses.

Why do we redistribute income again?

Fool in search of a topic to rant about.

So you think these items were purchased by them receiving income redistributed from others who earn more.

Were they on their way to work or to a government office to pick up their redistribution checks?