you can hire a stay-at-home mom with a graduate degree in Middle America for less than $10 an hour. If you figure out a way to exploit that, you’ll end up very

you can hire a stay-at-home mom with a graduate degree in Middle America for less than $10 an hour. If you figure out a way to exploit that, you’ll end up very, very rich. First, just to get this out of the way, it's kind of embarrassing that pornographers are once again in the vanguard. Now that that's out of the way, the author has an excellent point. There must be a lot of educated moms who are having second thoughts about staying at home, for economic reasons or otherwise, but they look around and think, "Crap, how the hell can I get a decent job here? I'm stuck in Middle America, nobody cares that I'm an excellent writer and researcher, and even if I wanted to work as a receptionist, I'd be ridiculed by my coworkers for the lack of return on my graduate degree in anthropology." When people have second thoughts about their lives, maybe they persuade their families to turn their lives upside down, or maybe they decide not to. Telecommuting from home is a great option for those who don't. I suspect there's a culture gap between educated stay-at-home moms and ragingly ambitious (and sometimes very narrowly educated) twenty-something software entrepreneurs, but they're basically from the same class and should be able to get along without too much effort.