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Sell Your Smartphone, Live Like a Pager-Era Drug Dealer

from Tariffs, China & The Chocolate Factory | The Tim Dillon Show #438 · #438

2 min

Continuing the 'live with less' bit, he tells listeners to sell their smartphones, compares phone ownership to being a drug dealer with a pager, and reads more market decline stats.

In this bit4 moments
  • Sell your smartphone to a drug dealer—only drug dealers need phones, the way pagers used to work before everyone got one.
  • Stock market crashed hard today, but most broke people don't understand what the S&P 500 or Nasdaq mean anyway.
  • People with 401ks and retirement plans got hammered because their money is all invested in the market.
  • Stop thinking more money makes you happier—some of the happiest people Tim knows are impoverished.

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