No not at all. If you work as an IT contractor of his calibre you need to assume some personal responsibility for your own finances. If you cannot do that then you cannot cry foul when life throws you a curve ball.

This has nothing to do with someone that is poor or someone caught in poverty and the poverty trap.

Please provide a better argument than making things out to be so simple as poor and not poor. I grew up in the third world, was poor, got an education and built my life. Your comment truly disgusts me as it trivialises poverty and makes it out as if we have no choice in our lot in life.

> "It looks like you're poor. Being poor is really stupid! You shouldn't be poor. I have a lot of money saved up, and I face much less problems than you do!"

Being poor is usually stupid if you are earning a lot of money (which most developers are). There are plenty of ways you can go from wealthy to poor (I've done it myself), but if that happens in a 24 hour period then there is probably some very poor financial management going on.

Could you have possibly put less thought into this comment? If this guy needs 5k to stay afloat for the next month, then he must have been taking home at least that much. He's not poor by any means.