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Not to be antagonistic, but this story makes it sound like your advantage came from the fact you had a computer early and your peers didn't. If everyone gets one, there is no advantage. You've just created a new necessity instead.


That's an odd takeaway but even if you're right, people who don't use computers suffer a massive disadvantage. Even more so if all their peers used computers. Doesn't change the fact that GP's "parents, teachers, and students [...] should never have been using computers in the first place" is nonsensical flamebait


The advantage came from being better at it sooner in life. That’s an advantage for a productive society.


> If everyone gets one, there is no advantage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_thinking




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