When I was a kid, I would try to watch television and my dad - who is great, but he can be a passive aggressive prick when he wants to be — would say something

When I was a kid, I would try to watch television and my dad - who is great, but he can be a passive aggressive prick when he wants to be — would say something like "go ahead and watch the 'boob tube' but just remember that those people have already made their millions." I would sigh and go back to the 486-33 and keep hacking away at whatever I was building in Visual Basic. I resented it at the time, but I bought my first drums with money I made coding when I was 11 and I was making good money as a freelancer by 16. My advice to you, should you choose to listen to me, is that you can read Hacker News all you want, but just remember that we've already made our millions.