Listen, when I went to high school, there were only a couple of &quot;computer classes&quot; available and I took all of them. When I graduated and went to college, my parents were lower-middle-class and I was a white male, so I didn&#x27;t get any kind of scholarships or grants or whatever. But my parents had put aside some money and I worked really hard to get through as fast as I could, so I graduated without any debt. Then I got a good job, worked harder, and eventually went back to school. I worked full-time to pay for my masters and phd, and when I graduated I jumped back into another job. The whole time I was putting aside 10-20% of my salary and the result is that now I&#x27;m semi-retired. I get to choose what I work on.<p>There ain&#x27;t no privlege here. Nobody ever sat me down and said &quot;this is what you need to do&quot;. Hell, nobody ever cared about that, just whether or not I could get stuff done. I never had any big friends throwing me tips and jobs like that guy at Sea World training the seals to play horns. I never begged some &quot;angel&quot; to give me money. When I hit a wall, I banged my head against it until I got through. When everyone else was going to &quot;conferences&quot; and &quot;training classes&quot; on the company dollar, I was back at my desk, pounding out code and reading the f&#x27;ing manual. And when somebody says I have a duty to make somebody&#x27;s life easier, I want to ask them where they were when I was sweatting blood?<p>You want a new &quot;language&quot; for &quot;privlege&quot;? How about spelling it L-A-Z-Y? Anyone could do what I did. It isn&#x27;t hard. You just have to put in the work and for Goddess&#x27;s sake stop whining.