> Elison is a high school dropout, a graduate of UC Berkeley
> Meg Elison is a California Bay Area author and essayist
So basically she went to one of the better universities in the country, but choose to follow her dream and become an author rather than an engineer. That is a rich person choice, a poor person would choose the career with high pay. She can only blame herself here.
I doubt she was an author at a tech startup (though its possible of course). The more charitable reading is that she works in tech and publishes on the side (like I do any many many other tech workers).
> Meg Elison is a California Bay Area author and essayist
So basically she went to one of the better universities in the country, but choose to follow her dream and become an author rather than an engineer. That is a rich person choice, a poor person would choose the career with high pay. She can only blame herself here.