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I think you’re missing the point.
Maybe I am. I think the original quote is really hard to understand. Frankly I think it’s just glib bargain-basement “deconstructionism” without much thought behind it, but let’s try to expand on it.
I think the author is trying to say the same as you (which I agree with): access to computing does not mean access to the fruits of computing in the modern world. Just because someone under disadvantaged circumstances might teach themselves to code, doesn’t mean they can get a job coding, or that they can get access to the capital needed to build a company around coding.
However, the author seems to believe that in this particular counter-factual case it would have been different somehow. Maybe because a DIY computer under (some value of) socialism would have led to a different outcome than a DIY computer under “capitalism” (i.e. the computing scene in the late 70s/early 80s in the US)? It’s hard to say.
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