And as in any food chain, bottom feeders outnumber those at the top. Both Lessard and Baldwin identified themselves as members of the Net's lowest caste, the so-called mole people. They never cash in a stock option. The streetwalker caste consists mostly of people involved in the profitable Net porn business. These are your real community-booster types.
Social workers run online chat sites, keep up bulletin boards, and run newsgroups.
Not a bad sort, overall. Also very unlikely to strike it rich. Someone has to clean up the refuse on the tech frontier. Garbagemen are the people who run help desks, do low-level coding, and check to see that sites and services are free of bugs. These are your really savvy freelance types.