Clearly this article upsets a lot of people but it ties together two important issues: One is that economics drives SV's best efforts towards the problems of th

Clearly this article upsets a lot of people but it ties together two important issues: One is that economics drives SV's best efforts towards the problems of the affluent. This gets extra flack because of all the (mostly hollow) talk of "changing the world" you hear from every startup CEO. The second issue is that as science advances, there are fewer important problems that can be solved with a quick technology fix, and there remain a huge pile of problems that require political solutions. From what I've seen, those are much harder problems to solve, which suggests an upper limit on how far we can invent our way into a better future.