Are you buying a new phone this year?

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“It’s so old, I’m not sure if it will even work,” the customer service representative on the phone told me (the disdain in her voice was crystal clear). However, the SIM card from my circa-2016 phone did, in fact, work in my new phone–or rather, my new-to-me phone. The disapproval of my retiring cell phone revealed a lot about how we think about our gad…