[ryanlol]

For a variety of reasons most people can’t. Those who can probably should.

Let’s also not forget the possibility of highly valuable and highly scalable pursuits.

[amelius]

There are still two problems here:

1. People with the talent to make high-value/low-scale products (e.g. medical imaging) are working on low-value/high-scale products (silly apps). This is similar to how our brightest minds are making people click ads.

2. Apple and the HN reality distortion field make everybody (even those without the skills) believe they can become rich by creating low-value/high-scale apps.