> "..because I couldn’t restrain myself from eating and drinking myself into an absolute sickness anytime they threw a party and expressed no limits on our cons

> "..because I couldn’t restrain myself from eating and drinking myself into an absolute sickness anytime they threw a party and expressed no limits on our consumption, ..because I had the only fat body in the building, ..because I never got over not having to punch a clock, ..because I had gotten married younger than any of my coworkers.." Having an eating disorder, being obese, being insecure about an early marriage and taking the time to notice people blowing their money away is not exclusive to poor people. I've been below the poverty line and grew up in a strapped-for-cash household, and I don't see how the author is making a point, or what having to be in tech has to do with it.