I've realised that in my social circle's outer ring, hackers and geeks are a dime a dozen, mostly because they're fake. Fake in the sense that people call themselves hackers but don't like to code or do anything that relates with that activity (ie. compiling stuff). Fake in the sense that they call themselves tech geeks but keeping up with the bleeding edge of geekdom is way to much of a hassle for them.

My reasoning then is that, in the grand scheme of things, they could just as well be flipping burgers and be just as happy. Except the pay probably wouldn't be as good. And what's more interesting is that this only happens with younger people, the oldest actually love tech, enjoy fiddling with bits and bytes and manage to have time for their families.

Then again, I'm probably just having a bad hair day.