Never did I suggest the world was fair or that trust fund babies don't have a better chance at a high income than someone born into a iron-workers family. I wa

Never did I suggest the world was fair or that trust fund babies don't have a better chance at a high income than someone born into a iron-workers family. I was suggesting that there's good money to be made in every discipline - you may need some creativity and personality to get to that money, but no one should ever look at the field they're in and say "Oh, ho hum, I'll never be rich because of my field." And your socialist quote was misquoted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_need http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abil... Finally, if your open source code is good in that it is solving problems for people, then you should have a very fertile network of possible consulting clients. Those who use their open source work to feed their consultancies can make very very good money.