Not just the independence aspect, but the hubris with which he complains about the most brilliant minds choosing to not work on, well, a social network site.
It's 2011; we are traversing inflection points of development in solar energy, nanotechnology, bioinformatics, and seeing the early, dramatic fruits of stem cell research, and Parker is bitching that the best of the best aren't keen on improving software that shares drunk photos and your latest opinion of Kim Kardashian's divorce?
Wow. Just, wow.