Okay, sure, money gives you options up to a point. But once you have enough to survive on, the rest is just superficial, unimportant, and more a measure of conditioned luxury than actual life success. As someone who makes much less than this post title brags about, I can tell you that your income is at least half luxury rather than "success because I have options", especially since it sounds like you're not needing to support more than one person with that income. But hey, we live in a capitalist world where people do like to equate more money with more success, so you do you.

And yeah, you definitely have the wrong understanding of what affirmative action is and why it exists. Firstly, it doesn't just apply to "Black and brown kids", it applies to all minorities, including Asian people and women. Secondly, obviously everyone has individual challenges, no one is denying that; but someone's cohort does, in fact, impart systemic obstacles and lead to a harder time, on average, attaining opportunities that other groups, on average, have an easier time finding. It doesn't mean all Black people have no opportunities, or all white people have plenty; it means that on average, certain groups (including Asians and white women) have systemic disadvantages that are unfair.

No one thinks, for instance, that Morgan Freeman or Samuel L. Jackson are struggling for opportunity; and no one thinks, for instance, that there aren't homeless white people with abusive families struggling just to survive. But it's not about the individual situations. It's all about systemic opportunities and averages.