Thank you for sharing your experience. I would note that there are not enough FAANG jobs to allow everyone to follow the same path as you did, even if they worked just as hard. Software can surely elevate a select few out of poverty, and at the moment, there is still enough room for a few more people. But what we're seeing in e.g. India is that it's not enough:

https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/