But that's what the author meant with high tech individuals mirroring the opinions of their middle class peers. Besides, the jury is still out about the outcom

But that's what the author meant with high tech individuals mirroring the opinions of their middle class peers. Besides, the jury is still out about the outcome of said low-tech upbringings. Steve Jobs' kids are now adults (the oldest is older than 30), and while it's already an accomplishment for somebody in that income & privilege stratum to be leading an entirely scandal free life (as far as I can tell), it's not like any of them seem to have done anything truly impactful with their lives either. So maybe the reason for that low tech upbringing was that they were not really expected to have to do anything major, but were being raised, essentially, to be modern gentry, to clean up nicely, sit on the board of family foundations, keep a clean nose, and remain somewhat detached from the grubby details of the actual running of the world. Nice work if you can get it, to be sure, but necessarily a line of work available to non-billionaires.