This is an interesting point of view, thinking about it I agree that instilling the "hacker ethic" into kids is very valuable. But how does one do that?
For myself, I fell into video game hacking (and related hijinks) because I loved a particular game, and happened to hang out with some smart people on some forums online, and that set the course of my life to a large degree. But it seems like accidentally having these experiences is harder and harder these days.
How do we set our kids up, or set the world up for our kids, to have these experiences organically?
I struggle to get my kids to experience computers with the same sense of wonder and amazement that I had. This could be inevitable (I've always taken flipping a light switch or refrigerated food for granted) but it still makes me sad.