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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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