[grondilu]

> And we can all name a lot of things that are broken: healthcare, education, homelessness and poverty, food waste, climate change...

Successful people in Silicon Valley are not concerned by these issues. They can afford to pay physicians without relying on public generosity, they can send their kids in private schools if they're not happy with public ones, they're neither homeless nor likely to become so (by hypothesis : they're successful), and they're not poor.

So basically, the subjects that are mentioned are really problems only for people who have a high sense of altruism.

Why are people not as altruistic as the author? I don't know, but it's probably just a fact.

[HillaryBriss]

healthcare is really difficult to fix because of laws that get in the way. how can an app or a website change, say, FDA regulations, physician licensing rules, and the insurance rate approval boards?

do other countries and health care markets have lower costs and better results because they have better websites, apps, data sets and machine learning algorithms?

[jon_richards]

Didn't Zuckerberg spend a ton of money trying to fix education? How'd that go?