What Gives People Feelings Of Power

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What Gives People Feelings Of Power

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Nothing says "I am the tech god now" quite like furiously typing commands in a black terminal window while your non-technical friend watches in awe. The pathetic little bars for money and status? Please. Real power is making your coworker think you're hacking the Pentagon when you're just running ls -la and hoping nobody notices you had to Google "how to unzip file terminal" 30 seconds earlier.

The best part? That tiny green bar for money is painfully accurate for most of us command-line wizards. But who needs financial stability when you can make the marketing team gasp by using vim instead of Word?

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