So much of life is luck. I'm from a lower-middle class family. My father was able to get into computers and video games during the microcomputer boom of the 7

So much of life is luck. I'm from a lower-middle class family. My father was able to get into computers and video games during the microcomputer boom of the 70s because my GRANDFATHER repaired televisions on the side for extra money, so the house had all the tools for my dad to take people's broken machines, repair them, and use them. This led him to learn basic (and BASIC ha) programming, which helped him get a decent accounting job. In turn, when I was born in the 80s, we had a computer and, even though neither of my parents were college-educated (in fact, my mother was a high school drop out), my dad could explain programming well enough that I understood and was able to find out I was good at it/really enjoyed it + I grew up in a tinkering household that encouraged experimentation, repair, and tool use. And now those skills are the main reason I don't have to worry about poverty. Because in the 1940s and 1950s my grandfather fell in love with televisions. That's just luck.