Why are you on Hacker News if you don't think successfully solving enormous problems merits enormous payoff? Like, this is the YCombinator message board. It's

Why are you on Hacker News if you don't think successfully solving enormous problems merits enormous payoff? Like, this is the YCombinator message board. It's about venture capital and discussion for middling-to-wildly-ambitious startups. I don't think you are wrong for asking the question, but this isn't really the place to question whether investment and entrepreneurism is an efficient system. There's a lot of internet out there. This one is for startups. Just let this one exist.