Happy to see this posting. I appreciate its black humor.

We Chinese have a famous saying: "Xiao(4) Ping(3) Bu(4) Xiao(4) Chang(1)"--- Let me try to put it into English verbosely. It seems to read "mock at the poor rather than the prostitute". Sorry for my poor translation.
It is not a shame for us programmers to
make a living by selling our skills and time.

Actually, there are a lot of similar humours
for IT guys. For instance, I have ever seen
a "conversation" between Bill Gates and the CEO of Ford Company. The main point is:
If Ford makes a car as Microsoft's operating system, this car will need to be rebooted every two hours or so.....