22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage

Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:27PM (#30048811)

I don't know many middle class families who would buy 10s of thousands of dollars worth of equipment for their kid.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by primax on Sunday January 23, 2022 @07:52PM (#30052316)

You likely do and haven't realised.

A decent quality upright piano is about $10000.

Some kids have go karting or motorcycle racing hobbies. Some have archery, golf, etc. They all cost a lot of money over time. Hell, some kids sail! That's really not cheap.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by seoulmetro on Sunday January 23, 2022 @08:07PM (#30052429)

That's only upper-middle class though.

So not much of the middle class.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by emteycz on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:52PM (#30049092)

Many. Middle class is a lot of people. Usually it goes into sports, though.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by bpodgursky on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:52PM (#30049098)

There are a lot of middle class families who spend 10s of thousands of dollars on sports camps, dance lessons, ski instructors, piano tutors... if their kid was really excited by electronics instead I can see a lot of families helping with that hobby.

Like yes that is a sizeable sum of money worthy of consideration but it's not at all prohibitive or unusual for a middle class family.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by quickthrower2 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @02:35PM (#30049606)

I would describe what you said as upper-middle class at least. Everyone seems to have different definitions though and the tech crowd is probably skewed up.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by bpodgursky on Sunday January 23, 2022 @03:52PM (#30050332)

I'm sure it skews that way but I've seen middle or even lower-middle class families invest a ton of resources into sports or dance specifically.

(also, a lot of working class Asian families invest heavily into music)

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by hnthrowaway0315 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:27AM (#30072101)

I think it depends on how middle class they are. If they are new immigrants who just get a pair of jobs I think even 1K is a lot of money. However over time they should be able to build up the fund for their kids. And again some families have a lot of kids with different interests, so that's also tough to allocate 10K for each of them.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by resueman on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:49PM (#30049061)

Well that goalpost sure made a leap. Spread it out over six years and imagine the kid is pulling in real cash with a youtube channel showcasing his projects.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @03:34PM (#30050173)

The 1000 dollars bill is for a single piece of equipment, a full lab is considerably more. The median household income is 70k in the U.S, in western Europe it's closer to 30k. The income distribution on youtube follows a power law. I don't think that puts it within reach of your average middle class family, even over 5 years.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by resueman on Sunday January 23, 2022 @06:17PM (#30051656)

How about the distibution of income for youtube accounts with millions of views? which is what the article says he has.

He also has a patreon account linked on there.

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