Well, right. That's why I wrote the sentence prior to what you've quoted. I'm not sure I understand quite what the article's point is. The part you quoted sounds very live-and-let-live. But then there's this:

> it saddens me that some of the worlds most driven, focused, intelligent and inspiring individuals don't focus their time on solving the real problems our society faces. It may well be that Yo has the user engagement and growth that justifies such an investment on purely those terms, but, to me, that is a narrow outlook.

> I therefore find it difficult to see individuals who could focus their time and effort solving these problems, instead put their efforts into something like Yo.

I grant that this is not exactly boot-on-the-throat language. But it's hard to read these remarks about what "saddens" McCann as anything other than (passive-aggressively) prescriptive.

Your analysis seems deliberately obtuse. The basic human emotion of empathy can explain sufficiently why someone can feel the way the OP does. You can question his assumptions (that in another world where incentives were aligned differently, Yo's creators would have been capable of contributing to alleviating human suffering) but to think there is some totalitarian undercurrent here is absurd when the more obvious explanation is frustration that people are suffering when they could be being helped.

I think the point is that smart money / people are not being given the funding they ought to be in the world, when our wonderful market driven economy prioritises crap like Yo app.

Mis-allocation of resources thanks to market forces. Though I am guessing the pro capitalist people on here won't like that and try to justify it.