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your privilege is showing ;) Seriously though. Lots of people are living pay check to pay check and drowning in payday loans just to get through the month. $30
by hellweaver666 8y ago
your privilege is showing ;)
Seriously though. Lots of people are living pay check to pay check and drowning in payday loans just to get through the month. $300 isn't something that they have spare to blow on a computer. In this day and age there isn't even a need to - not when they can get a €100 Android phone that will give them internet access to do everything they want.
Of course... creating a business from a phone is all but impossible and this is why we don't see many people from poor backgrounds becoming tech billionaires.
- sologoub 8y agoI have gone without many meals as a kid, you don’t know what you are talking about. Try living on less than $80 a month. We made it work and I got a good education.
- repolfx 8y agoThat's an absurd theory. Firstly, you can buy computers for $30 if you need to. But even if you want to get a laptop instead, the difference between $300 and $100 is not significant if you care about saving for it. The idea that poor people can't afford a computer is delusional - I've been to regions of Mexico and China that are dirt poor and they have flat screen TVs. In fact I've encountered lots of TVs in places much poorer than the USA. If they can buy that they can buy a different kind of screen without a doubt. Poverty is not an excuse for a lack of computer knowledge these days. Back in the 1980's, sure.