"Right now, entrepreneurs are trying to fix things that aren’t broken. And we can all name a lot of things that are broken: healthcare, education, homelessness and poverty, food waste, climate change…"
Damn right. Those are real problems.
But then the author praises Elon Musk for sending people to Mars. For prioritising space exploration over alleviating famine, poverty, illiteracy, whatnot.
The author's utter inability and unwillingness to distinguish between frivolous and meaningful is precisely the problem he's denouncing.
"Right now, entrepreneurs are trying to fix things that aren’t broken. And we can all name a lot of things that are broken: healthcare, education, homelessness and poverty, food waste, climate change…"
Damn right. Those are real problems.
But then the author praises Elon Musk for sending people to Mars. For prioritising space exploration over alleviating famine, poverty, illiteracy, whatnot.
The author's utter inability and unwillingness to distinguish between frivolous and meaningful is precisely the problem he's denouncing.