Agree. Strongly dislike this American sentiment of self victimisation. If you are born in USA you are not poor. If you are born in USA and work in tech, you are not poor even relative to other Americans. I mean most of the world (including me) dream of having an opportunity to migrate to USA, because living there is enormous privilege to have

Where does it say she owned a MacBook? She had one belonging to her workplace, but I've worked minimum-wage jobs where I've used equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars before.