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Hey Bill Gates from twenty years ago, how's it going? Seriously, though. This is not a bad approach. I don't know anything at all about bioengineering a more
by DanHulton 18y ago
Hey Bill Gates from twenty years ago, how's it going?
Seriously, though. This is not a bad approach. I don't know anything at all about bioengineering a more plague-resistant wheat crop. I don't know anything at all about how to calm two nations dead-set on the destruction of each other. And I sure don't know ANYTHING at all about how to practically and easily reduce our dependance on greenhouse-gas-producing oil.
That said, if I put my knowledge about how the web works into an application that people use and like and buy, then build up enough capital, I can fund the people who DO know those things, or at least know how to approach learning them. It's not a bad plan.
You're life's not wasted unless you waste it. I hardly consider what I do a waste. It's all building towards a larger goal.
- paraschopra 18y agoMaybe, we are just deluding ourselves all the way when we should doing stuff that matters. You know what the irony is. Even if some bioengineer makes a more plague resistant wheat crop, it wont solve world's hunger problem. India produces surplus crops. Even then it imports crops from outside. Even then people are dying here from hunger. So, part of the solution is to come up with right supply channels. This is just an example. We can always find ways where we could contribute more directly instead of waiting for things to get lucky so that we could fund other people.