>>58957946certain groups of Poor people love ostentatious displays of wealth. Shoes/sneakers, "bling," and the like. Its because since they don't have any actual societal capital, all their worth is bound up in their "rep" and social image. The inner-city gangsta thug might have a new iphone, air jordans, a $100 jersey, whatever car is super-hot right now, and $3000 worth of gold on him, but the guy in traffic next to him in the honda civic with a Moto G is a tenured professor that, based on phone choice alone, is $400 richer than the black guy.
They're also vulnerable to peer pressure and marketing; they're ashamed of being poor, and so buy aspirationally when they can.
Lots of actual rich people dress like slobs, because they're rich bitch, they can do what they want.
Plus, lots of poor people's experience of android phones is the $50 prepaid POS devices.
Lots of poor people have iPhones. I think poor people are more likely to buy in to the "iphones being status symbols" thing.
