If money is the only value, then greed is the only virtue. We must be close to heaven, then, because nothing in this world is free. Benevolent, educational organizations like Wikipedia have to go begging the web streets for money -- or else put ads in.

There are 62 people that control 50% of the world's wealth [1]. Just imagine the northern hemisphere with 62 people on it! And everyone else lives south of the equator. All 6 billion of us. Cursing each other in the pressing crowds while each of the 62 has a property larger the average size of an American state.

Those 62 people have decided to make everyone dance for their money. This is a divide-and-conquer modality, because it pits us against each other. And so there are the dancers for the little money, and then judges for the middle money, and finally the audience for no money at all. In fact, the audience pays for everything, not the advertisers.

Privacy makes you a harder target for ads. And so middle men demands that you relinquish your privacy -- all of it, so that they can sell you to the corporations. So, "We noticed you're using adblocker" is actually a battle-cry in a battle of conquest. In a battle of empires.

Pay phones are the last bastion of privacy. You may not have heard that you actually have no expectation of privacy on your cell phone [2] and [3]. I could not find the link about machine-listening. Google reads your emails to target you better with ads. It will not surprise me when the American judges decide, "Hey, why not let the cell phone companies in on this? He said he was having a baby, right? Well, he's going to buy diapers, then, isn't he?"

So we can not let pay phones disappear. At least not before recognizing their value. If you want to call a deradicalization hotline, a suicide hotline, or a crimestoppers hotline ... wouldn't you feel better calling from a pay phone?

So I wrote this application to help. Android only. I encourage people to revisit the issue of pay phones before we give our privacy up completely and without a fight:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bldg5.jj.findpayphones

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/18/richest-62-billionaires-wealthy-half-world-population-combined

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160317/12320533937/another-federal-judge-says-no-expectation-privacy-cell-site-location-info-because-everyone-knows-phones-generate-this-data.shtml