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> what does it accomplish but upping my view-count?

Same thing any form of political writing accomplishes. It tries to convince the audience to change their view.

> Honestly, I'm not sure what the Africa thing is about.

To paraphrase your original comment, "you shouldn't talk about this problem, because that problem isn't fixed." This maps well onto the an argument I've heard that "you shouldn't worry about homeless people in America while so many are starving in Africa."

> Honestly, I'm not sure what the Africa thing is about.

There is an argument that people make that you're not allowed to complain about first world problems (for example, the NDAA) until we've fixed things like world hunger.

Conversely, how come America feels like it can fix the world's problems when it has so many of its own that it can't fix?

> The fact is that the tech industry is a super-easy target for people to jump on, and this is wrong on so many levels it is barely worth writing about anymore.

Yeah, let's just stay silent and the problem will fix itself.