like every now and then i see someone with their age being like 14 or some shit in twitter or some other site and im like how tf r u so young wtf grow up shithead

  • Canama [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    my family were early adopters on the internet train, but i do at least remember our teachers asking us if we had internet access at home when assigning projects

    • asaharyev [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I asked this of my students in 2017. There are still a substantial amount of families who do not.

      • Canama [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        oh yeah for sure, but i lived in an area where you could expect the answer to be "yes" for everybody

        • asaharyev [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          ngl, I expect at least one of those families was lying.

          Maybe I've just never lived in a real upper middle class community, but, uhhhhh, poor people have other priorities, and the library exists.

          • Canama [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            yeah i grew up in a suburb that ranged from "upper-middle class" to "almost billionaires" so there weren't exactly a lot of poor people in my school. not zero; there was a small area out of town where poorer people live that was included in the school zone (i had a mentor in high school from that area and he was one of the people that really introduced me to socialism. also he had internet access at home) but not many

            • asaharyev [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              This is wild to me. I thought those types of places only existed in movies.

              • Canama [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                and when i said poorer earlier i mean relatively speaking. i'd expect everyone there was still above the official poverty line.

                • asaharyev [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  My town growing up had a median per-capita income of $19k (in 2020 dollars). So this is what I expect from others.