Smartphones Are a New Tax on the Poor智能手機(jī)是新型“窮人稅”

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Damon， who works full-time at an upscale hotel and part-time at a burger joint in Washington， DC， gets his weekly schedules through texts from his managers， often with last-minute requests to come in to cover for missing coworkers. To make sure he can receive these messages， Damon juggles1 two basically broken low-end smartphones， one with a shattered screen and another that turns on and off unpredictably when he tries to use it. “I’m waiting on my next check so I can get another phone，” he told me. Meanwhile， he’s using stagnant wages to purchase a phone that’s functionally a workplace requirement， all just to keep the jobs he has now.

戴蒙在華盛頓特區(qū)的一家高檔酒店全職工作，也在一家漢堡店做兼職。（剩余8606字）