everyone else is replying with 'Yeah, and whatabou-you?!?' , which I think is non-constructive.

i'd just like to remind everyone that when you see something that represents an effort that you feel is trivial , it doesn't represent an opportunity to add effort elsewhere.

A thousand dog exercise machines won't fix world thirst. The people that work on dog exercise machines aren't going to suddenly divest all their effort from exercising dogs and throw themselves into tackling world-thirst should their company dissolve tomorrow.

'World effort' isn't one big commoditizable sum.