What is the "laptop class," I wonder? And I think: It's people who are earning nearly as much as one can earn. I forget who his name of, but one of the German

What is the "laptop class," I wonder? And I think: It's people who are earning nearly as much as one can earn. I forget who his name of, but one of the German industry bigwigs said in an interview that the earnings scale ended at 600,000DM, which I guess is €400k nowadays considering inflation, or €500k. "You can't really spend more than that," he explained. A lot of software developers are less than two doublings away from that level and four or more doublings away from minimum wage, and I suppose behaviour depends on where one is on that scale. So I think the statement means something else. "the laptop class needs" doesn't mean that they need something, it means the speaker needs or wants something from them. "Get off their moral high horse" means that they should behave differently: They should behave more like the people at the bottom of the pay scale.