What is it about it that makes it unsuited for anything serious? The way you describe it, the only thing it's not suited for is gaming, which is not generally regarded as serious.

Many people including myself do serious work on a macbook, which is also ARM. What's different about this qualcomm laptop that makes it inappropriate?

That definition of poor would make the majority of people poor.

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I’m not American but my perspective here from Europe is that what most poor people I know have an abundance of is time.

You don’t really need a degree to take care of old people. I mean, perhaps some of the staff in this kind of facilities need a degree for certain select procedures, but most of them don’t.