They’re just enforcing stupid societal norms. People who do this are literally holding society back. And possibly envious.

I got things like “Why don’t you do something useful with your time for a change?” From my mom and friends because I was always on the computer teaching myself html at age 13, and finally uploading my very own website online over ftp dialup 28.8kbps. The year was 1996.

Finally I listened to them and stopped wasting my time. If I had kept digging I could have been a coder today instead of a laborer.