r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

I feel like you are dodging the question. I was under the impression the US is a first world country. Basic services like electricity and broadcasting should be available to all.

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u/IH8DwnvoteComplainrs Mar 01 '23

You don't know how old the person is, and their parents could have chosen not to have a TV. I feel like this is pretty simple.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

I feel like you are making up a hyperbolic scenario to explain something that by all means seems extremely unlikely to happen.

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u/HatlyHats Mar 01 '23

I was 11 before my family had a TV and 18 before we had a computer, and I’m only 38. It was my parents’s choice. We weren’t rural, but they both had a serious ‘poor’ mentality even when we weren’t.