Re: WSL keeps getting better, and it's because Microsoft is finally? admitting where developers want to be

c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
>   A long time back, a niece, maybe 3rd cousin, about 12 years old 
>   asked why anybody should DO anything, just hand out Free Money.  
>   "Well, if nobody is doing anything, what do you buy ?" Answer - 
>   "just buy it from some other place !".  "If nobody here is doing 
>   anything, making anything, why would our money be worth anything to 
>   them ?  It'd just be paper with numbers on it." She didn't have an 
>   answer for that.
> 
>   She wasn't STUPID - indeed probably IQ-130 - but she and her crowd 
>   had never even been informed how money/economies WORK, how the 
>   value of money is tied to DOING/MAKING stuff.  This seems 
>   criminally negligent - 'socialists/communists' behind it.

Maybe, but not necessarially.  Another possibility is simply growing up 
just a little too far up the "well-to-do" ladder.  Little ones that 
have always had every desire "fufilled" by mommy&daddy the moment the 
desire pops in their heads, and without concern for the monetary cost 
involved, very often grow into teenagers/young adults who have zero 
concept for the value of money nor for how current world economies 
function.  And not because their parents set out to teach them 
socialism/communism, but because their parents didn't want them to have 
to "want for anything".  The parents just didn't realize it was the 
"want, but can't have yet because you/we can't afford it" aspect of 
growing up that teaches them that money does not grow on trees and we 
can't just "give everyone money" and continue the same as we do 
currently.