I think you're missing the joke. Most of these apps are some nth-derivative of those industries. Instead of "make me dinner" it's "an app to aggregate apps that help me find someone to make me dinner, plus social networking." At some point the value-add is so small it's truly a "first-world problem."
I got the joke. I found it funny. I also found it thought provoking to examine how spoiled I am as a first world person. But that also got me thinking that to some level even basics are first world.
Movies: If your starving in some 3rd world country I doubt you care about when the next Hobbit comes out
Games: you'd have to be able to afford a game console before you care about games.
Cars: I lived in a 1st world city for 7 years where most people don't own a car which point out how much they are not really needed
He definitely got the joke. The point is that you could apply this to anything. Most of what we have now went through some kind of value-add process. Isn't that how evolution works? That smallest "value-add" could make room for bigger change later.
The interesting curve is the hyperbolic one, for two reasons: One, it matches the
real-world data. And two, it goes to infinity in 2015. And how are you going to
get an asymptotically-accelerating number of blades onto a razor? Why, you’d need
godlike super-technology to do that.
