This doesn't surprise me in the least. A highly trained, super specialized tech worker-- so, getting paid well into six figure wages for sure-- recently told me that he lives in "section 8" housing in San Francisco! Of course, he was so politically indoctrinated that he was telling me how "great" that "subsidized" (funded through theft) housing was; I could tell that nowhere in his mind did he ever stop to contemplate the larger state of affairs there, or his overarching world view.

In other news, I spent some time yesterday looking into my "Nintendo Switch for old games" idea. The new Raspberry Pi 4 apparently is fast enough to run 3DO games; a company called "Adafruit" makes a GPIO header-based 320x240 display; and my 8bitdo SN30 Pro will work as a controller. The only problems then are getting a case cut with the right holes for the Pi 4's moved HDMI connector plus the screen, and the fact that apparently the emulation software has kinks with the 4 at the moment. The total cost should be less than 150 USD to build this thing, if I can get the right parts.