It must be nice to be wealthy enough that you don&#x27;t have an employer to force you to own a phone. Most people must have a phone to stay employed and can&#x27;t make the decision this person made.<p>It must also be nice to have an adult watching your children all the time, even when it&#x27;s not you. Many single parents also don&#x27;t have this luxury.<p>He also asks what happened when your child had an emergency and no one could reach you because you didn&#x27;t have a phone. Well, first of all, you probably <i>were</i> near a phone because you were at work.<p>Second, <i>bad things happened</i> sometimes. Just because people &quot;got by&quot; with things the way they were in the past doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s OK to return to them.<p>tl;dr This is a privileged person talking about his privilege as though he&#x27;s uncovered some kind of magical formula to being happier.<p>Unrelated: It says a lot that one of David Cameron&#x27;s top policy advisors never reads books...