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 There's a welfare rights movment to fight for public access to coputers in public libraries for low income people. Just the cost of maintaining a smart phone throws some people into poverty needing to work 2 or 3 jobs for all the electronic tracking devices they expect us to own. SMART doesn't mean smart. It means Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. There wouldn't be so many people applying for unemployment if they weren't trying to automate everything, have everyone work from home and use AI to replace workers.  It seems like it woudl be possible to start creating small off grid communities using mutual aid philosophy, but it's hard to get indoctrinated individualistic people to live and work collectively.