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"Why donate money when people can just download my app and instantly have a better life?"

She's talking almost directly to Steve Jobs. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-mystery-of-steve-... The quote is a caricature of a more nuanced position, but articles like this are equally nuts: http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2011/09/steve-jobs-worlds-grea...

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I'm a "she" by the way :)

Oops, fixed! :)

She's talking about others as well. Instead of helping people get better education to find better jobs, or even creating jobs, they'd much rather take the unemployed and say "why don't they just buy my app, smart phone, tablet, PC, etc and have a better life?" Well because most of the unemployed and poor cannot afford them and go without them.

Then you have a lot of unemployed and poor who do buy that app, smart phone, tablet, PC, etc and suffer because they cannot afford food and shelter, but they got nifty things to improve their life. Just walk around homeless with a backpack and sleep near a dumpster, but use that shiny tech at the nearest library or Starbucks.

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