"Yeah, we ain't had a lot in the way of missions in a while an' the train pays considerably less for those weeks."

He doesn't actually offer points, for once. Usually he offers trades unless they're a close friend. Idia isn't close, he's just awkward, and seems to live a very unfortunate life.

So maybe while he doesn't want to just hand out money, he does want to help him. "Kaiba's got some good design programs if you wanted to hit him up." Even if Kaiba was in something of a state right now, understandably, he knows the guy wants to dive headfirst into his work when he's like this.