[wolfgoatcabbage]

Living at home with your parents seems to me like an example of a way to scale back a lifestyle to save money and work on your dream project even without a large financial safety net, i.e., the privilege the author cites. You could replace that example with: sharing an apartment with several friends, cooking cheap meals at home, foregoing a TV, using an old bike instead of a car, etc. I would be surprised if at least one of those options isn't available to the laptop-owning, English-speaking, tech-minded individuals who frequent this site. It doesn't seem very relevant to this discussion to nitpick the example given by the parent.