After working on a big entertainment time waster social site all week (not so much a crud app) I spent all today running first aid at special Olympics which I think provided value which the crud app let me do. Does that count?
I'm not saying that most devs are helping the world anyhow. But I'm saying that those guys are not either. So we should not be "celebrating their success" as though they did something extraordinary
They just sell shit. Why should we rejoice because they do it efficiently?
that's... my point... Hitler was evidently a bad person, but for their supporter he was great. That's what I'm saying to Simon... why taking such weirdos as figures of "success" when all they do is try to create addiction to shit content
I'm betting over 90% of what we do, collectively, really doesn't offer any true "value" to the world for however you're defining value.
Which means that your measurement is bad because it's based on your opinion.
Just like your comparison to Hitler. For supporters of Hitler, the things he did were amazing. But that was just their opinion.