Even more eye-opening are these articles from Linh Dinh, mainly dealing with American poverty: http://www.unz.com/author/linh-dinh/ http://www.unz.com/author/li

Even more eye-opening are these articles from Linh Dinh, mainly dealing with American poverty: http://www.unz.com/author/linh-dinh/ http://www.unz.com/author/linh-dinh/ The latest is on an ex-programmer who has fallen into heroin addiction and poverty. I suspect there are a lot more stories like this than you would expect from reading articles on Hacker News.