I'm not sure Google specifically needs to be doing something, but the tech community at large certainly could be. Hence the original author's question, I presum

I'm not sure Google specifically needs to be doing something, but the tech community at large certainly could be. Hence the original author's question, I presume: why isn't the tech community doing something? It seems like a reasonable question. Most tech companies are focused on products for healthy, wealthy people (wealthy enough to buy tech products, I mean. Which is far wealthier than the homeless people living on the street) What's to stop tech companies creating systems or products that directly help people at the bottom of society? Nothing really. It's a hard problem but that's what the tech community likes to boast about solving. I know those sorts of products aren't particularly appealing to most companies but they'd be a darn site better for society than facebook is