Nothing in this article says "look how tough we have it". It's a thought provoking piece on how broken an entire city is, and just how tone deaf people like you are to all of it. You're so busy worrying about code and lack any sort of empathy with others that you can't possibly understand the perspective of anyone else.
If you paid attention to what's going on you'd see that a "6 figure job" equates to much less buying power in SF than living in other parts of the country because the cost of living in SF is out of control.
Detroit and Bangladesh have different problems, in different severity and scale, but their existence does not discount the perspective of others in their own situations.