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.