Comment by varispeed | Hacker News Reader

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> but are actually achievable by a suitably motivated _and minted_ individual.

Unfortunately, in my country something like this is impossible for most people, simply because they don't have space and money to do anything.

I had some many projects in mind when I was younger, but my parents were poor and I had a tiny room. We had no garage, no garden. I still saved money to buy soldering iron and electronic components to experiment with, but I was damaging them at such a rate I spent all my savings on components and had to abandon this for many years.

I still cannot afford to rent a place where I could do something that interests me and I have a good job. Things also have become much more expensive, so it takes forever. Like I can only afford to order one iteration of project per month and it's frustrating I have so many ideas I just don't have anywhere to make them.

I came up with a system, so that I can store everything in boxes and have stacks of them from the floor to ceiling and a spreadsheet where everything is located, but it takes so much time to take something from the bottom or when I put breadboards in and accidentally disconnect something.

Sometimes I get so depressed by this I can't even do anything for weeks.

You should look up for hackerspace's in you city, it's a space with tools to do projects.

Years ago I tried, but these places are not friendly to neurodivergent people. Usually bullies take all the space and if they see you do something interesting they hang around to steal whatever you are doing. There is nothing you can do about it if you have no money.

Sorry to hear you had this experience, I would say its worth giving another go maybe you can check out the IRC first to check the vibe before committing.

It very much depends on which one, I find - the local one is primarily run -by- neurodivergent people so that tends not to be a problem.

> Unfortunately, in my country something like this is impossible for most people, simply because they don't have space and money to do anything.

Why is the country so unproductive?

Not every country is in the position to just print money, you know?

No country is in the position to print money -without causing massive inflation. It's a common myth that the "west can just print money".

The USD is the key currency. If the US prints money it is a different thing than e.g. if Denmark prints it's kroner in terms of financial consequences.

Not really.

A currency's value is determined by how confident people are that it will hold it's value. It's driven by supply and demand.

If country A trades with country B, it'll either get paid or pay with country B's currency. Country A might not be interested in country B's currency, so it can use the US dollar and a US institution as a proxy between the two. But that doesn't do anything to affect the value of the three currencies. It's simply a matter of convenience.

What matters is how confident people are of their respective government, laws and institutions compared to the US. Would they prefer to hold assets in the United States or their own country, or country A or B.

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