garchee

I've made as little as ~30k and as much as ~220k, and I've learned the hard way to not share (or implicitly show) how much you make when you're at either extreme end. Most people have very unproductive and toxic kneejerk-reactions to it, and you'll just pay for it in one way or another.

We didn't listen.

Nope, our EC2 and RDS instances are multi-AZ, still got affected. Might look into being multi-region though.

The MANY entrepreneurs with broke immigrant parents (me included) would probably disagree.

It doesn't hurt to come from money, and get a small loan of a million dollars, sure. But more important than that luck is being resilient and having stoic ideals, and that's something most Americans including the author of this article lack nowadays. It's very easy to constantly put yourself in a victim position and complain about how your life is harder than that of others, but that's mostly just self destructive as it wastes intellectual and mental energy you could instead spend on something more productive.