I think you're asking a very good question. Thinking more deeply upon it, the angle of this journalist is that this group is sort of a reverse Robin Hood, as in

I think you're asking a very good question. Thinking more deeply upon it, the angle of this journalist is that this group is sort of a reverse Robin Hood, as in theyre taking public funds in a way from being distributed to the sort of the mathematically challenged. And instead Distributing it to some mathematical wizards that are jetting in from the East Coast. It's sort of highlighting The Divide between the East Coast Elites and rural America.