Nice cars in the poor 'hood

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Originally Posted by reneeh63

...and smart phones can be had very cheaply these days...people have them in place of a laptop and are likely their only internet access. In case you haven't noticed, the internet is rapidly becoming about the only source of information these days. Oh, and you don't want poor people spending their money on tv's...right?

Cheap smart phones? Where?

I don't care how people spend their money and I like TVs, lol. Just curious about how the money is gotten if people aren't working, etc.

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Originally Posted by JONOV

Where you're at, is a cell phone a key piece of the banking infrastructure? I understand that in much of Africa many/most banking and financial transactions are done with a phone to avoid having to carry cash in an area that often doesn't have physical banks nearby and where cash will make one a target of criminals.




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That's interesting. I don't know about the banking connection. We have plenty of banks with LOOONG lines of people doing something there. I get the sense there's not a lot of online banking going on since there are always long lines at the banks - something we never see in the U.S.