People expect more of programmers (well, startups, really) because they can be extremely amazing at problem-solving -- when they bother to research a problem ra

People expect more of programmers (well, startups, really) because they can be extremely amazing at problem-solving -- when they bother to research a problem rather than assuming that they already know how to solve it, anyway. The drive, intelligence, and creative ingenuity of startup founders, applied to Big World Problems, would be amazing. If plumbers went around talking about "disrupting" water systems all the time, I'm pretty sure people would start asking them why they didn't do that in the countries that needed it most.