blacktonystark

The ham radio community is basically kept alive by senior citizens and the 42 of us under 50.

To be fair, its hard for anyone to know anything about hardware these days unless its a company with a large on-prem footprint and it doesn't make financial or regulatory sense to put in the cloud or co-locate, which is a vanishingly small number. Hell I haven't been in a physical datacenter in 5 years and that's where I started my career many moons ago.

It never was too high, the bar for what constitutes an education in at least the US has been far too low for far too long.

Those financial encumbrances exist due to VCs taking a larger share of the pie than their efforts are worth, and we can't look at their bank balances now and ignore all context as to how that money got there in the first place.

Its like if spanking was your fetish but the person spanking you believes they are punishing you. It's irrelevant to the person being spanked as long as they enjoy it.

So, to put simply, VCs are only interested in those who already are full of multi-generational advantages and privileges built off the poor.

No wonder startups are bascially for white guys only.

Part of me is like "this is dope!" and another part of me is like "are we so lazy/poor due to income inequality that actually learning how to build things is out of the picture now?"

Well, most managers at any pay scale definitely act like they don't know better.

Also core to the main plot of "Sorry to Bother You".

Maybe there shouldn't be "bottom tier" vendors at all if their existence means pushing and exploiting an inequitable standard of living.