[Kalium]

> Ah, right, because if you're lucky enough to be making more than your peers, you should shut up and deal with doing so in a horrible environment.

Not precisely, but a person's choices should generally be considered in light of the alternatives reasonably available to them. If nothing else, it's often a great way to better understand the choices people make. Not every person has fast, easy, low-risk access to a six-figure USD SWE job with a YCombinator startup.

[giraffe_lady]

Yes but when you laser focus on this fact above all overs, as someone always does when they come up on HN, you are positioning yourself more as "sweatshop apologist" than "global labor market understander."

[Kalium]

I would go so far as to suggest that the article is framed in a way designed to divide people into "Facebook haters and/or defenders of the exploited" and "sweatshop apologist" camps. Generally this has the side effect of making it difficult to be a global labor market understander.