Geeks have more power and privilege than we think. There’s this mythos attached to the geek identity that we are the outcast brainiacs who got beaten up in the schoolyard, had no friends, wore glasses and pocket protectors, and only found solace at the comic shop and behind the keyboard. […] Whether or not you got tossed into the school garbage by a fifth-grader pissed off because you corrected him in class (happened to me), that’s over. Today, nerds rule the world. Gates, Dell, Jobs, and Zuckerberg are gazillionaires. Summer blockbuster movies are based on comic books. Software developers have their choice of job openings in an economy with a stupidly high unemployment rate. Geeks have an army of gadgets which do their bidding because they know how to use those gadgets. Coders can deploy world-changing applications to the globe from their spare room. Geeks enjoy incredible privilege.
Gina Trapani, “Obliged to Do Meaningful Work” - Smarterware.org (via chordsandkernels)

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