Dotcom casualties litter skid row: “It’s always being thought that staff from failed e-commerce ventures

had gained marketable experience, however ropy the business plan

of the firms they worked for was.

However Associated Press has uncovered evidence to the contrary

after visiting the soup kitchens and homeless shelters that lie on the

flip side of the American dream. Depressed database programmers

and the like have joined drug addicts, alcoholics and the mentally ill

as society’s hard luck cases.

Nearly 30 unemployed high tech workers are among the 100 men at

shelters run in San Jose by charity InnVision, according to Robbie

Reinhart, director of the charity, who said the high cost of housing in

the area in contributing to the problem.” The Register