That's because the money you make is a defined by your position in a competitive political hierarchy. Your "contribution" is defined entirely by political status.
The more power you have over others, the more money you make. That's the real "free market" definition of value.
There's a reason climate damage and other critically important side-effects of market dysfunction are dismissed as ignorable "externalities". They have little or no immediate political effect and no independent political agency. Therefore in market terms their value is either zero or negative.
The physical reality is that the game board is on fire and unless something changes the entire game will be over soon.