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by chii 1961 days ago
> they were raised and educated by society and have inherited technology unprecedented in scale and influence.

any this opportunity was available to "everyone" in society. its just that only some chose to take it early on, and reaped the proportionate reward to having taken it on early (not knowing that it would lead to this end result). Now that it is known that tech is high pay, people now naively claim that it's unfair, and that the tech jobs should "pay" for this inequality of outcome.
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lotsofpulp 1961 days ago
>any this opportunity was available to "everyone" in society.

What does "everyone" mean?

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chii 1961 days ago
i meant by "everyone" as in there's no special privileged class of people that were allowed to become techies. Of course, not everyone can afford a college education, but in general, back in 2004, right after the big crash, the openings were available, the opportunities existed then. It just looks risky back then, because tech just crashed. However, if you weren't willing to take on risk, you cannot blame that the outcome for those who take on risk gets more.
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willis936 1960 days ago
Privileged classes can afford to take on risk because if they fail then they still have decent prospects.
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