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This author sounds to me like she wants Silicon Valley to entertain her. She sees the valley not as a normal participant in the Western economy, but rather as
by forensic 15y ago
This author sounds to me like she wants Silicon Valley to entertain her.
She sees the valley not as a normal participant in the Western economy, but rather as some kind of vehicle for the creation of her utopia.
If you're going to condemn people for not sacrificing their lives for the Africans, why start with programmers?
When doctors, lawyers, plumbers, bus drivers, real estate agents, elementary school teachers, civil engineers, security guards, 7-11 owners, and bloggers stop trying to make money, I will too.
- me2i81 15y agoRight, and there are various startups in and out of Silicon Valley working on humanitarian projects. The funding model is quite different, based mostly on grants. That kind of funding is even more fickle than VC money, and nobody expects to get rich. The people I know in that sector have no problem recruiting talent if there's enough money to provide reasonably stable (but somewhat paltry) paychecks. Lots of people want to save the world, even geeks.