I've had a computer for a long time, but looking back, when I was 8 I was lower-middle to middle-middle class at best. I say "looking back" because I didn't really realize it at the time, but in hindsight it's pretty clear. My dad bought a Commodore 64 not because he was rolling in filthy upper-class lucre, but because he saw the future coming and made that a priority for himself. And it had been out for a while before I got one; I think my dad said he bought it at $299. Which is of course still more than $299 today, but there's a lot of people who could scrape up enough for the C=64, disk drive, handful of floppies, and some TV somewhere (mine certainly wasn't a new TV!).

I find it hard to apologize for being lower-middle class at the age of 8-ish. Over the years he clawed his way up to middle-middle class and I did end up with a family computer of more value in my midteens, but, well, again, I have a hard time apologizing for this.

(Which was actually somewhat harder to work with than the C=64, in many ways; open source was terribly young and I had no access to the Internet for quite a while. The BBS software percolation system wasn't necessarily the best. Everything commercial was out of my reach, especially before open source started forcing dev environments down in price.)

There has to be some point where people take responsibility for themselves, after all; nobody forced me to actually learn about it instead of just playing games like all my friends of equal class who also had such machines.