so basically you’re getting a surveillance device shipped straight to your living room.

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    Why would anyone want this? It’s free, so it’s obviously not even going to be a good quality TV.

    There are no upsides to this.

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      It’s worse than that. If the concept of the book 1984 were a television this would be it.

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        “What Orwell failed to predict is that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”

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      You’re just not poor enough yet. They’ll keep inflating us into poverty until this becomes everybody’s best option

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      Honestly, if I was broke, I’d consider it. If you can afford anything else, then yeah, take that something else. But not everybody can afford stuff.

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        You can buy good quality TVs that are maybe 2-3 years old in sales or secondhand which would be much better than this, and no need for ads.

        I’ve seen people get an LG C1 for like $100 secondhand and there’s nothing wrong with it. You don’t have to spend close to or upwards of 1,000 on a TV.

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          Somebody posted another comment with the exact same idea, and I think y’all are under-estimating the amount of people who live under the poverty line (11%/~4M people in the US for instance), and the even larger amount of people who live below a living wage, and therefore all have zero buying power for consumer discretionary items, let alone having $100 to spend.

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      I tried to sign up just now but it’s US only. I don’t have a TV at all, I can’t afford one. I’d love this.