it’s not.

I’m not blaming Fairphone nor Murena. the economy everywhere is not helping make things cheaper.

it doesn’t change the truth that right now, privacy is for the rich.

More to the point. Making a cheap phone is not an affordable endeavour.

Linux phone makers such as pine have discovered this in the past. As your first products are going to be low demand. Running a business on the profit margins of lower priced phones becomes hard. It seriously limits your ability to gain investments. Making competition with similar priced products insanely complex.