> To put it in simple terms, you get what you pay for. If you invest in someone's startups, they'll deliver a startup (or fail); if you invest in someone's life

> To put it in simple terms, you get what you pay for. If you invest in someone's startups, they'll deliver a startup (or fail); if you invest in someone's lifestyle, they'll deliver a lifestyle (or fail). Whether this is true or not is exactly what needs to be figured out. So far, this is just a prejudice. > When a programmer becomes homeless and needs money, then that money is different from when someone who got out of prison for beating someone up has no money. And if that person just out of prison was a programmer? Would that change something? What exactly makes a programmer better than anyone who served his time and deserves a chance? > I hope with a little thought [...] you can disagree, but please do so eloquently Sorry, neither thinking nor eloquence are my forte. But I did indeed work with homeless people and ex-convicts. Try it and you might see they are people too.