If you operate in a zero-sum game, like most trading in financial markets, there is no way you can pretend you are contributing to society. There is literally nothing else but the money that could be the goal of the organization. This does not mean that all organizations make no contribution to society. Nobody works at MSF, for example, just for the money.
>>noelwe+(OP)
Sure. But a for-profit startup developing AI on a blockchain for pet social media is not MSF.
Moreover even in MSF if the CEO is being paid based on a compensation consultant’s report of the market rate “in order to attract and retain the best talent to advance our mission” well then everyone else should be paid on the same principle.