I'm not rich myself. Never have been and probably never will be. I don't expect to get rich. But I did grow up with a working class single mother who was an example of what I never wanted my life to be like. I didn't want my adulthood to suck the same way my childhood did. Did the lady who wrote this article know what it was like to grow up in a single parent household? Did she know what it was like for my to have to spend almost everyday caring for my younger behavioral problem brother because my mother was working late? Did she know what a burden and misery dependents can be on you and the older siblings? Obviously not. Well, I'm not saying she deserved to be poor, but really there was some decisions there that could have been chosen differently. Maybe she had an abusive or difficult childhood that blurred the lines between the way life should be and the way she grew up believing it to be.
Eh, decisions aren't enough though. Going beyond that and something none of the commentators will ever mention is that yes people do become poor and don't end up like this author. I perhaps just don't want to hear someone elses whining and talking about their shitty life. "I'm braver than you..." crap that could apply to anyone.