Posted on 06/28/2016 3:05:17 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
“I am not sure that it would have been a totally bad thing.”
Just the increase in communications has probably accounted for a significant percentage of GDP growth. Not to mention the phone has facilitated other technologies that enable people to spend money easier and visit a wider internet market from anywhere. And, the phone market itself didn’t even exist before. Imagine how many people are employed servicing, building or writing aps for the phones. I believe it has been an exponential mechanism that has served to ameliorate some of the damage done to the economy by eight years under Obama.
You can always turn it off.
economically good, I agree.
Socially and culturally a disaster.
Playing with piglosi’s hemorrhoids.
They're all in for a bad surprise. :(
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