There are people who make food. People who drive trucks. People who fly airplanes. People who do customer service. People who fill cavities. People who cure can

There are people who make food. People who drive trucks. People who fly airplanes. People who do customer service. People who fill cavities. People who cure cancer. People who fill potholes. People who clean floors. People who cook meals. People who maintain transmission lines. People who build houses. I’d say that most jobs are in fact doing critical work to make the world better for people, even if in small ways like improving the dining experience. I’ll also point out that in the case of the bank overcharging, it sounds like outright fraud (totally unacceptable) and the courts held them to account. It is shocking that fraud and corruption happen, but at least society seems to have a mechanism for dealing with it. Software engineering isn’t morally questionable, if you aren’t going out of your way to make the world worse for people. There is no compelling reason to do that, so the vast majority of jobs should be perfectly reasonable. I love my job in part because I’m never asked to actively make my product worse, or work against users and customers. We’re imperfect and don’t always work as well as we could, but at least we’re working in the right direction.