There's a lot that I dislike about this article, but I'll start with this: it is probably self-refuting. Someone could just have easily written: "I find it difficult to see individuals who could focus their time and effort solving [problems like energy, food, water, health, education], instead put their efforts into something like a takedown of the moral priorities of the people behind Yo on a their personal blog." A…
>> And, by the way, who appointed Christoph McCann arbiter of what it good and valuable in this world? This is such an important point, and why free markets work best. If people derive value out of Yo, then terrific. If they don't, it goes away. Don't need a moral crusader to decide what is worthy.
That's a facile argument. There's money to be made in a wide variety of pointless or even deleterious services. You can get rich hydrofracking or producing TV shows about how aliens built the pyramids. You woukd get paid relatively little and certainly get no ownership stake working for a government program like the NHS or Medicare. Doesn't mean people don't need them.