I also feel like we as a society have a lot of hard work that needs doing, but everyone is too busy yelling at each other. There's a lot of water in the bilge, and I'd really love it if I saw someone holding a bucket.
There's a large segment of the population—with decent representation right here on HN—that genuinely believes that if you're rich, then you must have gotten there by being smarter, or in some other way inherently superior, to the rest of us who aren't.
Here's the depressing reality: there are a lot of people in the bilge with buckets, quietly bailing like mad so they don't drown. I'm not just talking IT personnel here, there are legions of under-appreciated, underpayed essential workers (more than just healthcare professionals) that keep our civilization afloat. You don't hear from them, because they are a) too busy getting shit done, and b) disenfranchised (this includes not getting time off work to vote).
The irony is you are distracted by the peacocks strutting about on deck debating whether we should even admit the bilge is filling up.