Because I don't care about such problems. I care about doing stuff I a) understand or might get more understanding from b) believe I can do c) find fun in solving d) get paid too.
Your argument is that people don't because of a lack of information - it's not fully so. I know some problems I could work on, which would help other people. I chose not to, because it's an endless tunnel, and it's no fun.
How exactly do you propose to force me - or anyone else - to work on the problems you believe are the most important? Were are your guns ?
To put that in simpler words, if I don't believe your problems fit by abcd criteria, I will not work on them. You may find "public shaming" a useful tool for your deeds, but you will find that it only works a limited amount of times.
Now please excuse me if I don't engage in your guilt trip and instead spend time do stuff I want, which may be in your list of important things, or might not.
[The only real argument there is in the conclusion: we could be concerned if we, as the human race, were collectively not doing stuff we wanted to do because of a lack of ambition, or to follow the 'large base' pyramid example, didn't sell stuff to poor people.
I must say I'm sometimes worried about people lacking ambition, and like in this post engaging in empty rhetorics instead of actually doing stuff - whatever "stuff" might me, even an hello world...]
Because I don't care about such problems. I care about doing stuff I a) understand or might get more understanding from b) believe I can do c) find fun in solving d) get paid too.
Your argument is that people don't because of a lack of information - it's not fully so. I know some problems I could work on, which would help other people. I chose not to, because it's an endless tunnel, and it's no fun.
How exactly do you propose to force me - or anyone else - to work on the problems you believe are the most important? Were are your guns ?
To put that in simpler words, if I don't believe your problems fit by abcd criteria, I will not work on them. You may find "public shaming" a useful tool for your deeds, but you will find that it only works a limited amount of times.
Now please excuse me if I don't engage in your guilt trip and instead spend time do stuff I want, which may be in your list of important things, or might not.
[The only real argument there is in the conclusion: we could be concerned if we, as the human race, were collectively not doing stuff we wanted to do because of a lack of ambition, or to follow the 'large base' pyramid example, didn't sell stuff to poor people.
I must say I'm sometimes worried about people lacking ambition, and like in this post engaging in empty rhetorics instead of actually doing stuff - whatever "stuff" might me, even an hello world...]