The author is not assuming you, personally, got an easy ride. Nor is the author dismissing any and all hardships faced by white males during their lifetimes. It is disappointing that you took his comment that way.<p>Acknowledging that it is easier to make it in the tech industry if you are a white male does not mean that it <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> hard for you. It just means, for example, that it probably would have been <i>even harder</i> if you were an Eastern European woman who grew up in a poor family.<p>You don&#x27;t call out the author on such comments because you don&#x27;t need to read such comments as a personal attack. I worked hard as hell to get into this industry. I came from a poor family. I slept in my car for a long time just to afford to get my first product out. But I had the advantage of being a white male who grew up in a culture where those things gave me an advantage from birth.<p>From the cartoons I watched as a child (far more male heroes than female) to the politicians in my country (mostly white and male), to most of my role models in my field of choice (also white, male). In addition to a million other invisible benefits. I was able to go into technology with confidence and social support that many other groups will not have.<p>&gt; No, it&#x27;s not. Just like women don&#x27;t have any duty to ensure that there&#x27;s an arbitrary number of men working as models and just like black NBA players have no obligation to ensure that there&#x27;s enough white guys on the team I have no obligation to worry about some arbitrary quotas.<p>I think that&#x27;s a sad way to look at things. We are not trying to ensure there is an &quot;arbitrary number&quot; of certain types of people working in our field. We are simply acknowledging that there are unnecessary hurdles faced by many groups who may otherwise already be working in our field. It is a wonderful thing to have the power and voice to &quot;send the elevator down&quot; to help those people up.