What are you trying to say? That people that had "millions" went homeless? The stocks recovered in less than two years. If they didn't sell in panic they still had millions after a brief period.
And as such they will not do it because people don't use such devices currently. It needs to be the other way around: have the devices, people start using them more and more, and only then come Google and Facebook to destroy the system with ads.
Yeah, 900€ just for two years is nothing. And this is just for the IntelliJ IDEA, not the whole pack. The standalone Office suite is 650€ for life. Photoshop from Adobe is quite a lot cheaper (some variant goes for $120/yr).
Take a look at the pricing for Jetbrains products. 500€ for the first year only. I'm sure it has some features above "vim with syntax highlighting" but I can't tell which one costs 500.