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The premise you're assuming only holds if socioeconomics is constant. Imagine being the child of two software engineers living in a house in the suburbs with yo
by lgessler 10y ago
The premise you're assuming only holds if socioeconomics is constant. Imagine being the child of two software engineers living in a house in the suburbs with your own room and computer. Now imagine being the child of a single mother who works two minimum wage jobs and lives in a cramped apartment in the projects.
If the latter child doesn't end up spending as much time programming as the former child, how much of it do you think was choice?
- morgante 10y agoMaybe you missed the last paragraph of my comment? I absolutely agree with the notion of socioeconomic privilege. For what it's worth, I ended up making more than my (single) mother in my very first CS internship.
- lgessler 10y agoSorry, completely glossed over it. Looks like we agree on this :)
- khnd 10y agoi dont think hn can imagine that hard