There's a guy in one of the main irc chans I hang out in, who even after being there for a decade, still does not get it, still thinks we're "hackers" ... just because we run e.g. eix-sync -q ; emerge -DuvaNqtg world does not mean we're "hackers".
I did some maths yesterday, after hearing said that wages have gone down by a third every decade since 1970... meaning (if I did the maths correctly) in this coming decade wages are less than a tenth what they were in the 1970s.
A quick search just now suggests house prices are about 4 times more expensive in real terms over the same period.
So that's fine. We just have to pull on our bootstraps over 40 times harder for better budgeting enough to buy a house.
I guarantee that most of the kids that come from rich families have no idea what it’s like not to be rich. As a result, they don’t ever consider that it might not be normal to be able to have your dad’s lawyer look over the contracts for your new company free of charge. They never think of how easy they had it to find investors for their company, and how forgiving those investors were. It never occurred to them that during those lean months at the beginning when their company hadn’t yet started generating real revenue, that it was unusual to be able to live in their parents’ spare apartment in the city, and to have dad pay off their credit card.
Well at least it has buttons.
Still shant replace my Nokia e90 and n900 for gathering dust.
No mobile phone used here since Edward Snowden confirmed they're listening.
... But at least it has buttons.