Too Many Smart People Chasing Too Many Dumb Ideas?

theodp writes "In The Unexotic Underclass, C.Z. Nnaemeka argues that too many smart people are chasing too many dumb ideas. 'What is shameful,' writes Nnaemeka, 'is that in a country with so many problems, with such a heaving underclass, we find the so-called 'best and brightest,' the 20-and 30-somethings who emerge from the top American graduate and undergraduate programs, abandoning their former hangout, Wall Street, to pile into anti-problem entrepreneurship.' Nnaemeka adds, 'It just looks like we've shifted the malpractice from feeding the money machine to making inane, self-centric apps. Worse, is that the power players, institutional and individual — the highflying VCs, the entrepreneurship incubators, the top-ranked MBA programs, the accelerators, the universities, the business plan competitions have been complicit in this nonsense.' And while it may not get you invited to the White House, Nnaemeka advises entrepreneurs looking for ideas to 'consider looking beyond the city-centric, navel-gazing, youth-obsessed mainstream' and instead focus on some groups that no one else is helping."

Mweeehhhh

[kruach aum]

Smart people aren't doing what I want them to!!! Why aren't they making the world better the way I think it should be done?!

Re:Too Many Smart People Chasing Too Many Dumb Ide

[g0bshiTe]

Where have you been the last X years, when was the last time you saw something truely original or innovative?

NOTE: Windows 8 doesn't count.

Re:That's his name you xenophobic shit

[pla]

Meh. Ask me if I care.

Go on, ask.