That is heavily dependent on what you think "society" means. Is it the entire human population of the Earth? Just the people of your own nation? The people i

That is heavily dependent on what you think "society" means. Is it the entire human population of the Earth? Just the people of your own nation? The people in your hometown? Just rich and influential people? Most of the time, I'm contributing to my own nuclear family by exporting my labor and importing other people's money. And that's "society" enough for me. Other people can derive some ancillary benefit from what I do, but for the most part, the majority of them have been quite rude to me for no readily apparent reason beyond my general homeliness, so I stopped trying to satisfy them a long time ago. The only contributions I feel are valuable in the ultra-long term are development in more efficient space launch technologies, space habitats, space propulsion, and ecological remediation here on Earth. But I don't do any of those things, so I don't value my own work very highly. I'm just workin' for The Man, and he doesn't love anybody or help anyone except Himself.