This is blogpost demonstrates everything wrong with the Silicon Valley mentality and is actually quite insulting. I hope it's sarcasm.<p>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 <i>he lacks a computer</i>.<p>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 <i>wouldn't</i> be homeless.<p>Every time I see an inane blogpost like this, I feel like smacking some sense into the overprivileged idiot who wrote it.
The "unjustly" homeless?
WTF?
What justifies someone being homeless?
The only justification in a reasonable society is that they actively choose to live that lifestyle.
Poor life-choices, lack of planning, exposure to addictive substances are not justifications, just excuses for society to dispense with it's duty to care for fellow humans.
I would be curious to know the results of this. There needs to be meetups set up for this purpose. Nowadays in the bay area, there are too many useless networking events, there needs to be more initiatives that actually make a difference.