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having friends, access to a basement and enough cash to purchase Goldeneye, or a friend with the cash, sets a very low bar for the term "privileged".
by jgalt212 8y ago
having friends, access to a basement and enough cash to purchase Goldeneye, or a friend with the cash, sets a very low bar for the term "privileged".
- jdmoreira 8y agoI grew up in Portugal and in a poor region. We were very privileged compared to our peers.
- pjmorris 8y ago'Privileged' is very much a matter of what you're comparing against. In the 90's, about 25% of the world's population didn't have electricity [0], let alone game consoles. [0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/eg.elc.accs.zs https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/eg.elc.accs.zs
- o0-0o 8y agoWhat a trite little post. You are ahowing your inner sadness. Lock it back up quick.
- dang 8y agoPosting like this will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
- jstarfish 8y agoPlaces like Brazil have obscene taxes on game hardware so if you could afford a copy of Goldeneye with early-2000s money, you were a baller.