What do HNers think of the possibility that younger people coming up may not have ready access to the 'big yellow machines' of coding/software? At present, you

What do HNers think of the possibility that younger people coming up may not have ready access to the 'big yellow machines' of coding/software? At present, you can get an old workstation and monitor for cheap, put Linux on it and have essentially the same tools that the folks at Facebook/Google?local startup have. Once the divide pointed out by the author becomes entrenched, it may not be that easy to get access to the same environments that professional (paid) coders have.