> A popular criticism of Silicon Valley, usually levied by people not building anything at all themselves,
I have to take issue here. I don't need to be a "builder" to see that what a given startup is building is either worthless or an attempt at solving a non-problem.
I'm not a helicopter pilot, but if I see a helicopter stuck in a tree, I don't need to be one to know that the guy screwed up.
Sure, but a lot of people like to complain that snapchat/tinder/etc. are wastes of time or poor uses of talent when really they make a lot of people's lives a lot better.
It's far from an objective observation, I'm merely pointing out that the idea that you need to be doing a thing in order to criticize someone else's thing is hogwash.
"I find this product useless" is useful. "Other people are stupid for finding this product useful" is useless, just as is "other people are stupid for not finding this product useful".
I have to take issue here. I don't need to be a "builder" to see that what a given startup is building is either worthless or an attempt at solving a non-problem.
I'm not a helicopter pilot, but if I see a helicopter stuck in a tree, I don't need to be one to know that the guy screwed up.