https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/nov/02/experie...
If you are constantly told that your own way is the wrong way of doing things then your are less inclined to do something on your own.
It wouldn't surprise me if a certain percentage of every society would be inclined to be this way regardless of the environment. I once read an article in which it was said they believed even in the earliest groups/societies approx 3-4% of people would be inclined to not want to contribute to the group and the rest of the group supported them.
Sounds plausible
Despite what some people on HN think, there's no lack of tech talent, instead there's a lack of employers willing to hire people without perfect backgrounds, and a lack of accessible resources for people to make themselves attractive to these employers.
The "get a job" part is the difficult part. Imagine the easy mode version of the problem, not someone literally on the street but one of the hidden homeless people I described above. Suppose they have rudimentary tech skills, who is going to hire this person with no relevant work history, no references, probably no higher education, and all the complications of their current life?
I wanted to see if anyone else had tried it so I searched on YouTube and found a video where someone filmed themselves with the same idea.
Most of the video was them politely asking dozens of homeless people if they would like to learn, offering to pay them for their time. Most said no. Maybe they passed on a good deal here? Maybe it was a waste of time?
Eventually they find this guy and he is skeptical but he says yeah sure. They teach him the basics. For loops, if statements, variables and stuff like that. Then they pay him and that's it. The end of the video. I wish they would have kept up with him and tried to help him get a job next. But again who knows might not even be a good path anyway.
My point is, and my takeaway from that video. Even if you have a good deal, and a lot of times we don't even know if we have a good deal exactly. You have to ask dozens maybe hundreds of people before you find someone who is interested.
I think you can cheat this by going to places like SV where there are more founder types. But it mostly just opened my mind about being more willing to be rejected and approach more people rather than ponder why the 3 or 4 people I had asked weren't interested in starting a company or whatever else it might be.