The parent comment is asking for tractable ways for a person to help improve things. Starting a company is not tractable for almost anyone. If you have kids, ar

The parent comment is asking for tractable ways for a person to help improve things. Starting a company is not tractable for almost anyone. If you have kids, are poor, etc, you need some form of income. If you don't fit the right mold, you're unlikely to get VCs to invest in you. Starting a company is not a feasible option for most people, and the average company fails and ends up causing nothing but harm for all involved (in the form of lost years of their life they could be doing something that didn't fail so). Your answer amounts to "you can't do anything. It's impossible unless you're so privileged or already independently wealthy that you can start a company". Your answer sounds like "Well, Bill Gates made the Bill Gates foundation, just make your own research institution".