there's this great new scam where folks will try

there's this great new scam where folks will try and sell you some phone that doesn't do shit and sell it as "the cure for doomscrolling" rather than "a dogshit phone without any features"

"this car doesn't have a radio"

"the cure for distracted driving"

once you realize you can appeal to folks' desire for radical simplicity you can sell them stuff that just plain sucks and disguise its limitations as virtues