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Steve Jobs releasing some new shiny thing that makes the lives of some very affluent people (on the global scale for wealth) magrinally better, doesn't compare,
by whyenot 16y ago
Steve Jobs releasing some new shiny thing that makes the lives of some very affluent people (on the global scale for wealth) magrinally better, doesn't compare, is not even in the same ball park, as ensuring that hundreds of thousands of people don't go blind in central Africa. That is my belief, and of course I understand that not everyone else shares it.
- johnthedebs 16y agoI can appreciate that point of view, though I don't totally agree. The problem I have is that they're no longer doing the same thing - it's like comparing Bill Gates to Donald Trump. It might have made sense to compare Bill and Steve while they were working in the same field, but why bother any more?
- uid0 16y ago> Steve Jobs releasing some new shiny thing that makes the lives of some very affluent people (on the global scale for wealth) magrinally better, doesn't compare [...] Aren't all people equal?
- jbm 16y agoMy moral compass has always been tilted towards meeting the needs of people before their wants. That said, I have read some awful things about the Bill Gates foundation so I'm a bit wary of taking his side.
- beambot 16y agoI actually believe that the iPhone will have a _huge_ (indirect) impact on subsaharan Africa, in a manner similar to traditional cellular technology. Principally, the iPhone seems to have hastened the development of low-cost hand-held medical diagnostic equipment, including digital stethoscopes, portable ultrasound, eye examination, remote disease diagnosis, etc Sometimes it takes a revolutionary product targeting affluent individuals to help drive innovation for everyone else.