<p>Has innovation been replaced with bundles of cash?</p>
<p>So these two kids with literally mega millionaire parents made an unoriginal and quite honestly crappy app. Its just text on information on how to play a video game. You learn the information they give you within your first days of playing. However their parents gave them loads of cash to promote their app and now it has 150,000 dowloads (and a really low approval rating). They have been featured on Forbes and Anderson Cooper Live. They got into Forbes because guess what! The guy who wrote the article personally knew their father! </p>
<p>This just ****es me off. The app isn't something new. It is in fact something profoundly bland. Its also not good at what its suppose to do. But who cares! They have money! They didn't work for it! I work for almost every dollar I get and these kids threw away i believe it was 1000s of their parents money. They get to put this on their college apps:
Featured in Forbes
On Anderson Cooper Live
Run summer camp
App with 150k+ downloads </p>
<p>I get to put:
Work at center for disabled
Make jack **** </p>
<p>I try to do innovative things but they require time and MONEY and I have neither. Emphasis on money because my family is broke. </p>
<p>I'm really just venting here and I'll probably get a lot of blowback i most likely deserve. But it just baffles me that you can make something crappy and the definition of unoriginal yet when you throw money it just magically becomes a great and successful idea.</p>
<p>I feel you bro. That’s just another aspect of this cruel, unjust world. Those kids have multimillionaire parents that make everything so easy, while I can’t even afford a $5,000 car to go around places for my ECs…</p>
<p>This is a good example of social stratification and why its so hard to excel and move into higher class positions. America (us) like to believe we live in a meritocracy (where you are in your life is due to your skill, innovation, hardwork) when in fact its still heavily stratified. This pain that you are feeling is a direct result of that inequality. Those kids will probably go on to their college of choice and never be heard of again unless daddy pays for their fraud works to be published again.</p>
<p>Its not even that they are rich. I don’t care. You have a great idea and you are rich I congratulate you. But a game guide is so unoriginal and their game guide is just mediocre. The only thing that made is successful was money. Specifically their parent’s money. Anderson Cooper Live flew them out to be on the show. I mean <strong><em>. I want to meet ANDERSON FREAKIN COOPER. And now they get to go to the college of their choice because they can put that they made a “successful” app. I thought life is unfair meant if two people have a good idea and one is rich and one is poor then the rich person will get his good idea. But apparently it means that if you have *</em></strong> ideas just inject them with ridiculous amounts of money and ta-da! Success! You’ve lost all your parents money but lots of people bought your app!</p>
<p>I guess the only thing you can do is go to a college you love, major in something awesome, and request research grants. They let you innovate when money is an issue and, if you’re interested in grad school, undergrad research looks great and shows initiative. If you’re driven, maybe one day you’ll have enough money to make an app of your own and the skills and creativity that come with having to work for it. Best of luck!</p>