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"Why work on this burning city when this earthquake-ridden city is in shambles!"

a) There's no obligation to work on earthquake-ridden cities over any other issue.

b) Mythical Man Month problem; firefighters might be good at extinguishing flame but not repairing earthquake issues, and there's only so many civil engineers to go around.

c) Your comment is proof that no good deed goes unpunished.

d) YC is fantastic and produces results, but a startup accelerator probably doesn't have a viable pathway to reduce economic disparities. Those will probably need to be addressed through political means.

You'd be surprised. Heart disease, for example, is one of the deadliest age-related diseases, but it's by no means exclusive to the wealthy. See for example the World Health Organization's statistics[0]; they report that three quarters of deaths from cardiovascular disease occur in low-income and middle-income countries.

[0] http://www.who.int/cardiovascular_diseases/en/

Not only would I not fault them if they hadn't tried anything along the lines, but they've been doing a UBI pilot for ages.

I agree - we need to work on both.