Sorry. I find this kind of self-importance nauseating to say the least. Curing cancer or connecting the entire planet is the only way one can change the world?

Sorry. I find this kind of self-importance nauseating to say the least. Curing cancer or connecting the entire planet is the only way one can change the world? Really? If that's the case, then I guess 99.99% of our resources as a global community are misallocated, along with the hopes & dreams of thousands of entrepreneurs. Who says one can’t create valuable human experiences in games or some other form of social entertainment? Or with a nutritional product? Seems to me like Dixon is conflating Acai berry-esque products produced by scamsters with folks who (god forbid) aren’t trying to create the next Google. As if there are no shades of gray in between. Yes, many entrepreneurs move on to bigger and better things. Which is great. We should encourage thinking as big as possible. But to sweep aside the smaller projects they & others created to get to that level (products/services that may not have “changed the world” in the traditional sense but still might’ve solved a burning problem) or to actively discourage folks from solving similar-scale problems is the height of pretentiousness. I think solving big problems impacting humanity is fantastic. Actively discouraging people from innovating in spaces & making those folks feel like douchebags because they’re not the developer equivalent of Mother Teresa and aren't "changing the world?" That’s absurd. And it ought to stop. I've seen & heard it too many times from a litany of folks in the tech scene.