Not optimizing for profit is a very privileged position to be in. Are people with poor backgrounds supposed to think that selling some ads is worse than having

Not optimizing for profit is a very privileged position to be in. Are people with poor backgrounds supposed to think that selling some ads is worse than having your family suffer? I can make a third as much and maybe do something better for society, but what happens then if the industry collapses? I'm not coding killer drones. I'm working for an ad company.