Making the Poor Poorer

Vodacom today offered me 30% off airtime payments (which I make through FNB) if I will use the Vodacom app. To put this another way, I must pay 30% more if I will not use the app. Now, I have many devices, but none of them runs the app. Many other people, like me, are unable to run the app.

This inevitably disfavours the poor, who less often have devices which will run it. This 30% penalty, call it, seems therefore to be discriminatory -- in its own small way making the poor poorer, and the rich richer. Who ever thought it up? May I suggest that Vodacom correct this, and further make some kind of reparations to the poor.