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It's inaccurate on two fronts: he didn't spend the money because he loaned the hardware... and the reviewed thing was actually $40k. :D

Most of these are unfair in some way and many are wrong. What makes this funny is precisely that it has more snark than is reasonable (and often pushes bad assumptions as snark usually does!)

>a little unfair to Jeff

I don't know chief, have you seen how many rpis this guy has?

It need not be a dichotomy. I also laughed at the title. At the same time, I found the original article useful.

No, I agree, I just wanted to call it out.

Jeff’s content is way too high quality to make him rich.

High quality content usually makes someone rich, and that someone is usually not the creator.