My Visit to Russia – I Mean The Verizon Store

I was forced to visit a Verizon store today to upgrade an iPhone on my business account. It was no different than trying to lease/buy a car at a car dealership in the 1990’s. 

After the Verizon ‘bandwith broker’ disappeared for 15 minutes into the back to view my spending history with his Verizon ‘pit boss’, I was presented with some choices on how to save money on my current plan (which is a rip off), if I were to buy a tablet and something useless called ‘the hum’.

My smartphone is magical and so is the internet. 

Somehow the gateway to all this magic is back in the hands of the government, a telco oligopoly and financial derivative algorithms. 

Not sure how to hedge the risk yet but we will all be paying for this massive slippage and hidden leverage at some point.