The main sentiment behind MMM has always seemed to be "get a really high paying job and work your ass off for a few years". It doesn't really work if you are stuck in an average wage, with few prospects and no jobs to apply for.
this is true. It is certainly more plausible for the average HN reader than the average person in the world though.
Especially because I'm pretty sure he is/was a software engineer, who happened to ride the crest of two real estate bubbles.
he was(and so was his wife). AND they were canadian so free/cheap school graduating right around 2000 before moving south of the border, they defs got lucky(and definitely worked hard)