[dragontamer]

But the irony is that the generic advice actually applies to the hacker news audience pretty well.

People reaching 100k/year or so single income should be able to save comfortably. And a lot of programmers are on an appropriate career path to get there in a few years

[giantg2]

I wish that were true for me.

But I think you're missing the point. The advice for most people (the target audience of the gurus) is wrong. It's just a coincidence that this article is posted on HN and it would be disingenuous to examine it from only this position/context.