{"id":2169,"date":"2014-12-22T22:40:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2014-12-24T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T00:10:17","slug":"shelling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/2014\/12\/22\/shelling-out","title":{"rendered":"Shelling out."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was re-reading (again, I forgot how many times) one of my favourites writings of Scalzi, “Being Poor”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It opens with the line “Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago I changed my phone for a new one. I’ve switched from a flip-phone (a Sony R306) to a Motorola MotoG. On the way I lost five days of runtime on a single charge and that peace of mind that I can bump it into everything without caring that much or that I can leave it unattended on a table and no one will part with it (and also the AM radio).<\/p>\n

On the other paw, it is developer friendly, has a ton of shiny and distracting things and syncs without a hitch.<\/p>\n

Back again to what made me think of it.
\nIt is advertised as a cheap entry level phone and it kind of is on other countries. At the exchange rate and taxes back then I paid a fair price compared to what it would cost had I bought it on an foreign shop.<\/p>\n

However, it is not (at least to me) worth what it costed if I only wanted a phone to IM and talk instead of a development tool. It was more or less the same amount of money that I spend on three months of food<\/em>. Many people earn less than that sweating blood on never ending days.<\/p>\n

On a few minutes I traded money worth three months of food for a device that fits in my palm. It was an investment that paid for itself in a few weeks but I still feel quite strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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