Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?

Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product? by olau on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:21AM (#18501276)

I think the point was that having smart people participate is wasting their time when they could be doing something more productive, not who is losing. Like for instance work on robotic arms so we can all have a household robot to do the house chores.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product? by lallysingh on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @07:39AM (#18502214)

I could argue the same about physicists not working on FTL. Or medical research on non-life threatening diseases. It's a bit unfair.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product? by wpietri on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @02:48PM (#18505442)

Medical research on non-life-threatening things is still creating value for people with less-than-fatal problems.

Physicists working on physics research might be a problem if those physicists could just divert money elsewhere in the economy into their own research programs. As it is, there's a complex system of controls so that public research money is generally used for some reasonably good purpose.

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