Sorry, I suspected you were indulging in rhetorical hyperbole. The danger of email is that without emoticons the affect of the writer is totally flat (i.e., without spelling it out, hard express sarcasm....)
I think the class differences are sometimes sociological and sometimes contextual. My parents were poor new class (well educated, not much income) so I got sent to college without a type writer, let alone a computer (I knew there was this really cool thing called word-processing but I didn't go to a school where you had access to computers..., not uncommon for middle class kids in the stone age, let alone bring one to college). For the first 5 years of working in computing all my training was informal and for that time I was essentially a serf in a NYC consulting firm. Technical fields are traditionally an avenue of social advancement because they rely on specialized skills not dependent on background (contrast with service professions). Immigrants, kids from blue-collar or rural families etc. get drawn to engineering as a profession for obvious reasons. Even here there are factors affecting income and professional status, ie, formal vs on-the-job training, associate v bachelors v graduate degree. Do you own your business or were in a job setting where an employer would spring for hardware and/or training? My only real point is that even in as affluent and celebrated a sector as high tech there are lots of folks struggling, if not just to get by, then struggling to get ahead (I think we forget that in a dynamic business those things can be the same thing). -P ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
