Not everyone here is ignorant or unwilling to think of second order effects. You can't really do programming/networks/tech as a career and not get it after a certain point.

These problems are hard as hell, and yeah, being paid well insulates one from a lot of problems if that's what you set out to do. Not everyone sets out to do that though.

It's hard to understand being poor unless you've been there though. You can acknowledge it, yes, but that's usually as far as most people will go.