If you have a small group of brilliant computer scientists, they can create world changing software. How many folks were required to get Snapchat or Youtube off the ground?
What happens when this level of genius in small groups is cut loose on financial markets where "Make money is the only goal"? You get these space shuttles. They are so complex because that's all these people ever think about.
> If you have a small group of brilliant computer scientists, they can create world changing software. How many folks were required to get Snapchat or Youtube off the ground?
Snapchat is world changing and the work of brilliant computer scientists? Did I miss something? I can only hope that your post was intended to be sarcasm.
I think the meaning is "It only takes a small high powered team to 'change the world'/add tremendous value if they have skills and a good idea." Snapchat is one example of many.
Youtube owes just as much of its success to an army of lawyers achieving two things: filling up with copyright content without getting sued and/or jailed, and banging codec licensor and standards body heads together until video worked everywhere without wildly unreasonable cost or transcoding for every device.
The silicon valley is hardly a counter example of "make money is the only goal". In fact for those who question the compensation of bank executives, the compensation of silicon valley executives should raise a few eyebrows.
Technological advancements are made. UDP Broadcast was completely broken in the 90s in Linux and was fixed by people in the finance industry. High speed network cards are constantly improving thanks to those same people.
What happens when this level of genius in small groups is cut loose on financial markets where "Make money is the only goal"? You get these space shuttles. They are so complex because that's all these people ever think about.