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"Welp, €100K is not setting the bar that high folks. I can prove that by demonstrating two different examples where I didn't pull a salary of €100K from a European company."

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This is an attitude that I see a lot when developers talk about salary, and it is baffling. It's as though you are so determined to win your point that you would prefer to spend an entire lifetime making a less than market rate out of spite, rather than accept that the market pays as well as it does.

It only takes one example to prove that something is possible. What you do once you know something is possible is up to you.

I like your blog posts and you're certainly an inspiring example, but really it's odd that you can't see that, given the large number of people not in your position (as evidenced by the replies here and elsewhere in similar threads on HN), logic dictates that "one example" only proves that you are either lucky, talented, clever, or whatever (I'm not trying to analyse the reasons for your success or detract from it). But it's got nothing to do with a determination to win a point: it's just statistics, and they show that your personal experience, while interesting, has zero bearing on or significance for the experience of most people.

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