Meanwhile some people still don't have access to clean drinking water.
This will look more embarassing than a professional history with fushigi balls if you put it on your resume. It doesn't matter if you're Joipaw-scale or DogTV.
But seriously: niche products always look uninteresting and stupid to someone, and niche products trace all the way to folk crafts. cottage industries, and open air markets. Making video games for dogs is neither embarrassing nor a “product of startup culture”. It’s just something somebody thought was cool and put some time and money into. It’s great.
i'd just like to remind everyone that when you see something that represents an effort that you feel is trivial , it doesn't represent an opportunity to add effort elsewhere.
A thousand dog exercise machines won't fix world thirst. The people that work on dog exercise machines aren't going to suddenly divest all their effort from exercising dogs and throw themselves into tackling world-thirst should their company dissolve tomorrow.
'World effort' isn't one big commoditizable sum.
I struggle with this one. People are not idiot, if water is scarce, it’s usually due to external factors.
Having grow up in a major colonial power, I sure benefits for the extraction of resources that happened since the late 17’s.
On the receiving end, societies being reduce to mere shadows of themselves by force does not exactly help.
Moreover, Some existing irrigation systems have been abandon during colonial times for lack of workers. ( workers being either diverted to slavery or other more lucrative endeavors for the colonial power )
Finally, modern pollution is a thing.
Are the resident of Ohio responsible for their newly polluted water?
Or the one of Jacksonville, Ms, they should have voted differently to avoid flooding of their system?
Same for Flint, Mi. They had a working infrastructure. Distributing water just fine. It was broken for years. Is it their fault?
I struggle to see the benefit of finger pointing here, as opposed to human empathy and « yep, that sucks »
Finally, and the examples above were hitting at that : drinking water is not a problem in country lacking propers infrastructure anymore.
The list of US cities having issues is growing; and the causes are diverse. From negligence to poor location ( haha; Las Vegas )
My point : saying « they should have a infrastructure by now » is silly.