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Why digital necessities become expensive dependencies

I pay three hundred dollars a month for my family's phone plan because carriers know we cannot function in modern society without constant connectivity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Essential connectivity becomes a lever for extracting increasing portions of household income.

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