Your bad faith reading of that article says otherwise. It's bleedingly obvious that it's satire. Do you think people seriously ask for donations to fund a private airplane?

$20K of gear isn't that much if you're an independent developer, and if you're working for others as such in the US, and you're not a financial basket case, it's doable. She even says "It put me in the poor house for a few months" so she made sacrifices to get there. You can too, if you want to. Why the envy?

To the contrary, so you really seem to have a problem with her.

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