Here’s a heart-warming story for you from the Washington Post. It proves that cell phones aren’t just for spoiled rich kids and upwardly mobile corporate employees. One Indian man has turned himself from an overworked produce retailer barely making ends meet to a businessman in total control of his life.
Joshi, a New Delhi vegetable seller, used to wake up at the wee hours of the morning to buy vegetables in the market, which he would then sell to passers-by at a favorite spot beside the road. He would stay there until the afternoon, and that would earn him $3.00. But then a windfall. He got a Panasonic cell phone, and business immediately got easier. With the cell phone, he gets advance orders from his customers and instead of waiting all day for them to buy his vegetables, they come to him at a designated time. This translates not only to a dramatic lessening of his working hours, it also means a significant increase in his profits, now $8.00 or 130% from his previous take home.
This is not news. There are people who are seriously considering giving cell phones to people in Africa and other depressed territories.
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