&gt; Because poor is poor. Not knowing where you&#x27;re going to eat next, not knowing where you&#x27;re going to sleep, not having money for formula or diapers, there&#x27;s no time where that&#x27;s good.<p>There are many shades of &#x27;poor-ness&#x27;. I&#x27;d model them as various forms of insecurity. Poor is not just one thing.<p>The main thing that hurts the most is loss of hope. If you have no hope that things will ever get better, then you&#x27;ll stop trying to find jobs, you&#x27;ll stop standing up for yourself, you&#x27;ll settle for whatever security you can find, be it in the arms of a psychopath or not.<p>With the Internet, you can find out about the larger world. You can talk to people that are not part of your tiny social circle. It&#x27;s a life raft that you can hold on to.<p>I met this older lady at the bar once who was in a real rough spot, she had a fixed income that she thought was so small that she couldn&#x27;t afford her own space, and no access to the Internet to look for anything and no ability to do so even if she had, old people are scared of Internet. She was living with several other women in the house of a man who I&#x27;d gathered was at least being emotionally if not physically abusive to. He was charging them rent and coercing favors out of them and being controlling. It was all this lady could do to get out of the house once a week.<p>I happened to have my laptop with me, so I asked her what her income was, then went on Craigslist and found her several neighborhoods she could move to that fit all her criteria.<p>The next time I saw her at the bar, she had managed to secure a rental using the information I&#x27;d given her. She was a million times happier and effusively grateful for my pointing her in the right direction.<p>What she had told me pissed me off to the point of being willing to consider violence to rectify her situation, but all she really needed was a few minutes on Craigslist to radically transform her life.<p>Never underestimate the value of information. The rest of the tech can jump off a cliff, but you will have to pry the Internet from my cold, dead fingers.