How about a program where entrepreneurs are given a chance to live and work in cities in emerging markets for 6 months? At the end of this time, they can submit an application for a startup in that market, and if accepted, receive another 3 months room and board and $16,000 in seed money.
Why do people expect programmers to be Jesus?
When doctors, plumbers, daycare workers, and bus drivers start targeting the 3rd world market I will too.
I'm getting really sick of all these bloggers telling other people to do something meaningful. Take your own advice before telling me to donate my life to charity.
Don't dilute the point with your logical fallacies.
Brazil is technically part of the 3rd world.
I enjoy visiting poor countries as much as the next guy. But I don't want to raise my kids there or work there for very long. (Maybe as an adventure in my early 20s)
Like every other normal human, including Brazilians, I want to have a good life. As a highly educated, highly intelligent person born and raised in the 1st world, why should I sacrifice all the comforts and enjoyments of civilization that my ancestors worked so hard for to please some bored blogger?
Would Brazilians sacrifice for me? No. They don't give a fuck about me, and neither does this blogger lady. So I am unconvinced by all the appeals that I go work some unprofitable job in some shithole country because Silicon Valley isn't "exciting" enough.
Yes, but "is a euphemism for" isn't the same as just plain "is." For example, not everything that's a "convenience" is a toilet. That's a huge logical fallacy there. You use the exact same fallacy twice in an example of fallacious overreaching to an extent which is fortunately rare here.
As a highly educated, highly intelligent person born and raised in the 1st world, why should I sacrifice all the comforts and enjoyments of civilization that my ancestors worked so hard for to please some bored blogger?
You definitely shouldn't do it to please some bored blogger. Are you implying that's the only reason why anyone, ever would want to do it? You're probably not the one to go. No one's going to argue that. It would be pointless to argue that. In fact, I don't see a point to staking out the position in the first place.
It's also quite clear that there are people out there in the 1st world who would want to go.
I'm not against charity work -- I'm against other people telling me to do charity work.
in 1990 the USSR was #2
The GDP ranking is not how you determine this
Doctors already do: WHO, Medicins sans frontiers etc. How do you think smallpox and polio were eliminated world-wide ? Now that is "changing the world".
The drive, intelligence, and creative ingenuity of startup founders, applied to Big World Problems, would be amazing.
If plumbers went around talking about "disrupting" water systems all the time, I'm pretty sure people would start asking them why they didn't do that in the countries that needed it most.