Not everyone can create, whether it's a website or designing the next iPhone. Very few people can. Those people that do are rewarded very well.
Besides, if we were all trying to cure hunger or house the homeless who would be creating all the fancy computers we use every day?
And why blame 'programmers', there are plenty of doctors, lawyers, and financial workers in SF that have to 'step over' the homeless every day on their way to work as well.
"Besides, if we were all trying to cure hunger or house the homeless who would be creating all the fancy computers we use every day?"
You're right, it is hard to imagine how we would survive without Yet Another SocialMobilePhotoSharing Application.
Remember the Dark Days, my friends? When to share a photo you actually had to be around people, and talk to them? Ugh. I shudder to think upon it. We lived like savages, back then; filthy, stinking savages.
Curing hunger and housing the homeless doesn't, the last time I checked, require creativity or programming talent. Growing food and constructing buildings are what we geeks like to call "mature technology", and thus not something we concern ourselves with except at the margins where changes in efficiency have economic impact.
Besides, if we were all trying to cure hunger or house the homeless who would be creating all the fancy computers we use every day?
And why blame 'programmers', there are plenty of doctors, lawyers, and financial workers in SF that have to 'step over' the homeless every day on their way to work as well.