This is blogpost demonstrates everything wrong with the Silicon Valley mentality and is actually quite insulting. I hope it's sarcasm.
Programming is not a magical cure to all of life's problems. In time, it will be just as necessary a skill as writing is today, and it will pay just as much (which is to say, very little for most, and very well for a few). The $100 means more to the homeless guy than 3 javascript textooks he can't sell, and probably can't read once night hits, and which he almost certainly can't put into practice because he lacks a computer.
Most homeless folks' biggest problem is not their lack of employment, but that they usually suffer from severe mental disorders or substance dependencies. If they weren't sick, they amost certainly wouldn't be homeless.
Every time I see an inane blogpost like this, I feel like smacking some sense into the overprivileged idiot who wrote it.
Programming is not a magical cure to all of life's problems. In time, it will be just as necessary a skill as writing is today, and it will pay just as much (which is to say, very little for most, and very well for a few). The $100 means more to the homeless guy than 3 javascript textooks he can't sell, and probably can't read once night hits, and which he almost certainly can't put into practice because he lacks a computer.
Most homeless folks' biggest problem is not their lack of employment, but that they usually suffer from severe mental disorders or substance dependencies. If they weren't sick, they amost certainly wouldn't be homeless.
Every time I see an inane blogpost like this, I feel like smacking some sense into the overprivileged idiot who wrote it.