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Investing in poor people who are bad at managing their own money or improving their lot in life is probably not going to get you very good returns. All joking

Investing in poor people who are bad at managing their own money or improving their lot in life is probably not going to get you very good returns. All joking aside. Upper middle class families are more likely to value, encourage and afford personal computers for their kids. That's what got me into programming. I started using my dad's computer too much when he had to work, so he bought the parts and a friend and I built my first computer at 14 with an awesome Riva TNT2 Ultra graphics card.

thaumasiotes 12y ago
> Upper middle class families are more likely to value, encourage and afford personal computers for their kids. Afford, sure. Value and encourage? I'd say they're more likely to demonize personal computers than to encourage them. My mom recently bought laptops for my little brother and sister, but she can't stand that they want to use them. Among the middle class, computers for children have become yet another parenting moral panic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30 http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30