Being intentionally vague about income metrics by diffusing it among a population. State senator salaries are publicly available, so really more than anything making the point that I'm not some keyboard warrior making $1 over the median wage, trying to give advice. Hopefully it comes across as useful to some. Apologies for my lack of context.
Implying that the ordinary person has the opportunity to make more than another person's entire family is -- by it's nature -- a joke. You can't be anywhere near average and make more earn more than 3+ average people. Using a normal distribution, that puts you a MINIMUM of 3 standard deviations above average -- literally the 0.1%. Using the actual income distribution (since it's distinctively NOT normal) -- it puts you in the top 2%. But if you actually work for a living (as opposed to collect returns on investments), it's likely in the top 0.1%.
A state senator is likely to be above average -- as are family members. In general, we don't strive to elect average. We strive to elect excellence.
Maybe it was meant to be a pep-talk. But just because one person dropped out of school and did well, doesn't mean that everyone can do the same. Maybe the OP is a genius. If not, he got lucky. And not everyone can be a genius or lucky.