First, I take a breath. More often than not, I will take more than one.

No matter what I'm doing I will always make some room to breathe. At the very least, I will go out for a long walk every single day of the year. Just walk. No distractions, no social noise, no music, no podcast, no nothing but me, my head, and that tiny thing called 'the world outside' ;)

Even better, when whatever it is I'm doing is stressing me out, I will make it multiple times a day because I don't work well when I'm stressed, so it's not a waste of time. And it also helps me stay in shape so it's even less a waste in that regard.

Last but not least, I learned to work less. It's not how hard you work or how tired you end up being that should matter, it's what you have done and much you like it ;)

Pen and paper is also technology, you know. And so are stone tools (try to make one of those flint knife without hurting yourself, to see)

So, to answer your question I would say it all depends the tech you're considering.

I have no difficulty at all using many various analog/low tech(nologies). But something makes me think you're more interested in getting some info about my relationship with the so-called 'high' tech, all those electronics gizmo, plethora apps and online services, constant tracking and spying, right?

Well, I can proudly say I'm good with it as well. We both get along very well.

How do I know? First, I never talk bad to it, also I have never ever thrown any device out the window, even when it more than deserved it with its relentless bugs, updates and quirks. Second, I use 'high' tech as little as I can, and never things using an algorithm to serve me content (hence me using the Fediverse instead of... everything else). I use 'high' tech so little it doesn't get much opportunity to ruin my mood, either. Most certainly, you will agree this is irrefutable demonstration tech and I are BFF, and how good I'm with with it. Right? ;)

I would set it back to the early to mid-90s, when I first experienced it...

Am I one of those old fart trying to say it was better in the good old times? Yes, and no.

Back then the Internet was limited, it was hacked together and there was no professionally designed website with pretty animations, security was... not much, there was no mobile web and, as a matter of fact, no 'app' at all since smartphones were not yet a thing. There was not even script languages like Javascript or PHP to develop all those shit... amazing dynamic features we're now surrounded with. So, yeah, it was limited. But...

There also was also no social media, no monetizing, no tracking, no corporate mafia-like CEOs trying to took us hostage or to milk us to death, and hands in hands with their politicians friends, trying their worst at transforming our free societies into some fascist dystopia that if they succeed (and it looks like they could) will make look all the XX century monstrosities mere child-play.

There were already evil corporations and assholes politicians back then, sure, but for the most part the Internet was people, not businesses. And it was not populated by those armies of braindead, tantrum-obsessed and hysterical morons we now consider the normal 'user'.

Trolls were already a thing, obviously, but there were not millions of them waiting to be mobilized through social media like a good army of haters ready to go stampede into oblivion anything nice or daring anyone could be willing to do. It was ok to not be nice, to not be liked, and to take risks.

I mean, it was actual people with their qualities and flaws, people that were willing to share content they were interested in and to discuss it. People that were not expecting to make a fucking cent out of every single fart they would make online. Nor to gain any Likes...

So, yeah it was rougher, so much more limited and a lot less cool. It was also a lot less polite. But it was so much more free and less full of shit.

(end of that old fart rant, promise)

All you say is correct but I'm not sure to understand the link with the op question, which was what can poor people can do better than rich ones? Just in case, it's a real question: I think I can read English quiet well but I may have missed something here.

I don't understand why this matters that much

Maybe because some apps will only work on certain phones (say on iOS or Android) and maybe because depending the phone you are using maybe someone could suggested another solution than switch app? ;)

Spend less time online, do less digital activities.

I do more IRL, in-person, activities. Any kind of activity most of us somehow forget we used to do well before Internet and digital was a thing can still be done without the Internet and without a computer of any kind.

In-persons is intimidating but it also helps keep away the armies of online trolls and haters that online thrive to hurt other people. Provided one behaves like a decent human being, it's very rare people IRL will hate on anyone for goofing up or for not agreeing with them. It's ok.

I also do as much as I can the analog way, without anything digital. It helps. Be it to write or sketch, or do stuff with my hands. Heck, even me using a paper agenda instead my phone will regularly trigger surprised/interested questions from people that otherwise would probably never have talked with me to begin with ;)

Now I have automatic backups.

Nodding approvingly ;)

And, yeah, I used to use one like that.

That would be the first step in claiming back what once was ours ;)

As a EU/French I vehemently oppose that idea unless we get to see the Canadian mounted police to parade here on the Champs Elysée, this next 14th July :p

J'ai des glaçons. Bien frais et non coupés. Je fais des prix pour les commandes groupées.

Sinon, oui, +1 aussi pour tes conseils: déconnez pas et buvez (de l'eau), rafraichissez-vous la tronche et restez à l'abri... et surtout, oubliez pas de me contacter pour des glaçons premier choix.

How would he live or what would he do in life? More importantly, what should be done with him to make him useful or at least neutral rather than being a negative on the society?

Are you a tool, or an object yourself? Can I throw you away because you're broken, or because a newer version of yourself has been released, or because I don't like the way you age?

Probably not because, at least in your own eyes, you don't consider yourself a tool or an object. You're not something, right?

Why is that? Because you're a person. You're a human being.

Well, good for you and, also, nice to meet you my dear fellow human being.

The thing is that with or without skill, we all are human beings too. We're persons, we're not tools at the disposal of some 'owner' who is free to break it and throw it away when not needed.

Given that, one realize that the fact of being alive is not about being 'employable' or 'useful'. It never was. Believers would say it's a miracle or a gift, I'm not a believer myself but I kinda understand that idea: it's... so much more than all we can understand.

Sure, each of us may need to be able to get food and shelter, true that, but then your question instantly stops being about 'what should we do with unemployable people' to become the, imho, much more interesting 'why is that civil society (aka, all of us) is allowing a handful of its own members, the billionaires and corporations, to decide they have the right to destroy the way society works for all of us and to render a lot of us unable to earn their living, just so that handful of billionaires and corporations can make more money? And why is that we should not object to their decision?'

Now, since I answered your question, allow me to ask you mine.

Why do you think people should be categorized by their 'usefulness'? And, if we were to accept your premise (which I obviously don't want to), would you happen to consider yourself one of those 'useful' that would still deserve a place in that new AI and robotic-powered society?

edit: typos + my usual poor English