throaway893

>5 years down the road you own 20% of a $1M

What a horrible fate. They only got five years of salary plus 200k extra. I'll include them in my prayers (just kidding, I don't pray).

You are completely detached from the real world. Even in super rich countries like the US there are a lot of people without savings, living paycheck to paycheck. Most/all software engineers outside the US can only dream of ever earning that much money. And yet here you are, worrying that you'll end up only slightly richer than people earning ~$1M per year.

You also have been told your name, most likely by your parents. It also had to be explained to you what you are, at some point in your life.

>What other field has journalists covering it that absolutely hate everything about it?

Politics

The average is completely irrelevant here. You'd have to look at the median household wealth of young parents (if they even have a household!).