Maybe it can't be helped. YC, for example, needs to make money to keep existing. To make money, it needs to invest in companies that are likely to make profit.

Maybe it can't be helped. YC, for example, needs to make money to keep existing. To make money, it needs to invest in companies that are likely to make profit. But the best way for companies to make profit isn't to innovate, is it? It's to find an audience and some business model and all that c*p I know nothing about, but that I feel yields companies and products that "lack [...] innovation," as some complained. Maybe, if we weren't so money driven and more of us could afford to build things for the sake of innovation and progress only, the results would be different. But I do concur, that there is at least one exciting and relevant problem that remains unsolved in the world of bits. A problem you're well aware of. :)