(This is not finished. I came across this sitting here as draft, and thought of just publishing it.)

I came across a forum about people talking about the salary rates of programmers in the local market. And, I kinda feel sad that some programmers solely measure their success based on the money they get, and not much about how cool the product they are building, or how their product can be changing people's lives. And, I couldn't understand the thought that just because you graduate from this so-and-so course, it's like you already have the God-given privilege of getting high salaries.

If majority of us have this kind of all-about-money-thinking in mind, it will be hard to jumpstart a start-up culture here locally. Because start-up has no money. When you have money, it's no longer start-up.

And, what I mean about start-up is not only about freelancing, but also about creating products from scratch.

Of course, I'm not discounting that we all need to eat, to feed, and to raise the whole barangay. 

Owkei, I'm not really sure what my point is. But