[muhfuhkuh]

Or, if you really want to change the world, alleviate the spectre of massive world hunger by coming up with radical agricultural techniques and selective breeding for drought resistance, then teach that technique to everyone you know for free[1].

Or, come up with a novel vaccine for one of our most vexing diseases of our time, then give away the formulation for free[2].

That's how you change the world.

Cue the capitalism-as-religion downvote squad, but this guy is a world class putz if he thinks a cloud-based notepad is changing anything but 1st world slight inconvenience.

[1]Norman Borlaug

[2]Jonas Salk

[astine]

While those men did great things, who actually implemented their discoveries? Drug and biotech companies. Businesses have their place too.

[vibrunazo]

If instead of "do it to change the world", he had said "do it to build something cool". Then would you have agreed?

I personally still wouldn't. But it seems there are a lot of people cherry-picking with this "world" hyperbole and ignoring his actual point.

[eli_gottlieb]

Quite fully agreed. Capitalism repeats itself first as tragedy, then as Silicon Valley farce.