[misterremote]

I’m often thinking about the same thing, but not only in tech.

Like why this photo filter app boy/girl is super rich + has a lot of free time, and my friend nurse has very little money and works all the time?

[ryanlol]

Because being a nurse doesn’t scale. It’s better to provide a small amount of value to 100 million people than immense value to 10 people.

[c22]

It's kind of subjective to say this is better. If 100 million people had a bunch of cool image filter apps on their phone but no access to medical care the outcome is pretty clearly not better.

Perhaps it's more reasonable to say that providing a small amount of value to a larger amount of people is more profitable.

[misterremote]

Yeah. And I'm also thinking about the value you give to the world, you know. Like these photo filter apps. How do they improve our life here on Earth.

They rather have negative effects I would say: like a bad impact on teenager's self esteem or something like that.

But yeah, it's our society and it's values :)

[amelius]

The question is: should everybody pursue work that is of low value and scales well? Because that is what seems to be more and more the case.

In a way, scaling/globalism seems to be working against us.