Context is everything. No, you with your interwebz and spare time to be talking on HN isn't going to get a dinner from me. But the guy with his family out in the cold on xmas because bigcorp decided they didn't need him after 39 years and he has no other marketable skill(of whose fault is debatable)? Yeah, I'm buying that family dinner. This kind of thinking, the "them vs us" instead of _US_ as a whole. This is what keeps divisions between us. This is how racism survives, this is how people don't care for the homeless, the poor, the sick, the people in 3rd world countries suffering to provide you your fancy 1st-world luxuries. Screw 'em, right? If they weren't smart(read: lucky) enough to be successful that's their own fault. What, they didn't know enough to learn fancypants.js in 2007? Too bad! What, they thought they should be working at the corp forever and getting a nice retirement package? Pfft, whatever! What are people suppose to do? EVERYONE can't be an entrepreneur. Some(apparently a lot) of people just want to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.