[britknight]

> If you're a programmer and you feel like curing malaria is more important than Uber

Um, this, for one. I see no possible reality in which a disease that kills almost one child every minute[1] could possibly take a backseat to you not being able to get a taxi when you call for one. The above could be put in the dictionary next to "first world problem".

I would love to hear your reasoning if you have some opinion to the contrary.

[1] http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/en/

[woodman]

> Um, this, for one.

Actually, that is a pretty neutral position. Your position sounds much more "privileged", as you appear to be attempting to tell people not only what they should do, but how they should feel. I'm going to assume that you didn't imply that anybody holding a contrary opinion on the best use of their time is somehow cheering on malaria :)