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No, It's not. I was a poor kid and didn't get financial support from my parents in young adulthood/college. I couldn't even fathom spending $1,000 on non-essen

by astura 5y ago

No, It's not. I was a poor kid and didn't get financial support from my parents in young adulthood/college. I couldn't even fathom spending $1,000 on non-essential expenses during college. I was living entirely on student loans and minimum wage summer jobs - When that's your life you can't think about anything but pure survival. It's an entirely different mindset that I have now as a financially secure person. If I got a $1,000 windfall during college it would go straight to bills/food. It would be entirely unfathomable to spend it on anything else. $1,000 is more than my monthly income during my college years.

toomanydoubts 5y ago
$1300 is my monthly income as software engineer with 9 years of experience(in a third world country).
- sdze 5y ago
  - toomanydoubts 5y ago
    I would be happy enough if I could find an affordable raspberry pi laying around.
  - dang 5y ago
    You posted 8 or 9 of these comments. That's abusive. Would you please stop? If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." Perhaps you don't feel you owe "rich kids" better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
bradlys 5y ago
Sorry. Posters here don’t understand. Why didn’t you have FAANG internships? Why didn’t you have an incredible scholarship that overpaid you and allowed you to spend $2000+/month on non-essential expenses cause everything else was covered. Not relatable! Not relatable! Does not compute! People here are incredibly out of touch. $1000 for a poor college kid is a huge amount of fucking money. I had a full ride, monthly stipend, and jobs. Yet $1000 would’ve crushed me in many of my years in college and definitely wouldn’t have been something I would just splurge on for one month. It’s also only $1000 to purchase, doesn’t include transport, doesn’t include repairs, and doesn’t include all the additional work to get it running. Peak HN out of touchness running in this thread.
- sdze 5y ago
  I find it funny that you all really believe this story line. It amazes me how easy it is to manipulate the masses. Like Elon Musk is the poor South African "inventor". I am having problems believing a rich kid (must be because huge cellar in New Jersey) find a very expensive and crucial equipment and fixes it for a few dollars (1000). Without this story line, it all wouldn't be fascinating. I have problems when people post sensational stories about people like him. It makes poor people look stupid. Just link to his youtube or where he publishes his findings or whatever, but stop spreading sensational news. Main info is: he is so young and he achieved so much. Look at you random 22 year old: What did you do?
- emteycz 5y ago
  Not really. We all know poor people couldn't really do it, just as they couldn't do expensive sports and other expensive but still usual hobbies, for example. But this guy is not the only upper middle class person in the world - he's from a country with the largest, richest middle class of all countries; and so discussing the money here is IMHO the more out of touch thing - there is more people in the US with enough money for this stunt than there is poor people. Can't we just celebrate the incredible achievement that literally not a single other not-poor kid was able to do (compare to the number of semi-pro hockey players - hockey is notoriously expensive)?
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Avamander 5y ago
> During college And living alone? If you're under the same roof as your parents you don't have such expenses. Even more so if you're underage.

by astura 5y ago

toomanydoubts 5y ago

$1300 is my monthly income as software engineer with 9 years of experience(in a third world country).

sdze 5y ago
- toomanydoubts 5y ago
  I would be happy enough if I could find an affordable raspberry pi laying around.
- dang 5y ago
  You posted 8 or 9 of these comments. That's abusive. Would you please stop? If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." Perhaps you don't feel you owe "rich kids" better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

bradlys 5y ago

Sorry. Posters here don’t understand. Why didn’t you have FAANG internships? Why didn’t you have an incredible scholarship that overpaid you and allowed you to spend $2000+/month on non-essential expenses cause everything else was covered. Not relatable! Not relatable! Does not compute! People here are incredibly out of touch. $1000 for a poor college kid is a huge amount of fucking money. I had a full ride, monthly stipend, and jobs. Yet $1000 would’ve crushed me in many of my years in college and definitely wouldn’t have been something I would just splurge on for one month. It’s also only $1000 to purchase, doesn’t include transport, doesn’t include repairs, and doesn’t include all the additional work to get it running. Peak HN out of touchness running in this thread.

sdze 5y ago
I find it funny that you all really believe this story line. It amazes me how easy it is to manipulate the masses. Like Elon Musk is the poor South African "inventor". I am having problems believing a rich kid (must be because huge cellar in New Jersey) find a very expensive and crucial equipment and fixes it for a few dollars (1000). Without this story line, it all wouldn't be fascinating. I have problems when people post sensational stories about people like him. It makes poor people look stupid. Just link to his youtube or where he publishes his findings or whatever, but stop spreading sensational news. Main info is: he is so young and he achieved so much. Look at you random 22 year old: What did you do?
emteycz 5y ago
Not really. We all know poor people couldn't really do it, just as they couldn't do expensive sports and other expensive but still usual hobbies, for example. But this guy is not the only upper middle class person in the world - he's from a country with the largest, richest middle class of all countries; and so discussing the money here is IMHO the more out of touch thing - there is more people in the US with enough money for this stunt than there is poor people. Can't we just celebrate the incredible achievement that literally not a single other not-poor kid was able to do (compare to the number of semi-pro hockey players - hockey is notoriously expensive)?
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Avamander 5y ago

> During college And living alone? If you're under the same roof as your parents you don't have such expenses. Even more so if you're underage.