Discrimination I'm not native English speaker so please do not be annoyed if you see mistakes in my article.

I came from a third world country, where living cost is cheap. but Learning tech from paid resources was/is not that easy. Buying a book that cost 30$ for me would be 1500EGP, which is more than the minimum wage in my home country.

I have to admit I downloaded many pirated content because I could not afford it when I started working in tech and many people are still doing that.

It's more challenging when you start your own startup in tech. infrastructure cost would make your business run out of cash after a month probably if you build it on AWS or Azure probably. then what is the alternative. Let's do it old school then, rent a VPS or server and you would need to maintain every single service like DB, logging, storage, etc. but what about tracking, mobile app crashes and other services which you could not build or maintain yourself.

I'm not sure if this is realistic but using popular tech tools is a luxury in some counties and I believe they should probably try to localize their prices to help people to focus on building great apps not waste time to replicate the needed tools.