They really don’t care that much about making the world a better place, mostly because they feel like they don’t have to live in it.
It's a disturbing attitude, but it's one that our culture and our public sphere have more-or-less explicitly encouraged.
Nobody is supposed to live in the world as a whole anymore. You're supposed to build a perfect little bubble of your own possessions designed by your own mind to suit your own ego, and live in that. Anyone who cannot or does not do so is deemed a failure.
The problem being, someone has to scrub the toilets, someone has to farm the food, there's only so much beachfront real-estate in the world, and many of us like having a world.
It's a disturbing attitude, but it's one that our culture and our public sphere have more-or-less explicitly encouraged.
Nobody is supposed to live in the world as a whole anymore. You're supposed to build a perfect little bubble of your own possessions designed by your own mind to suit your own ego, and live in that. Anyone who cannot or does not do so is deemed a failure.
The problem being, someone has to scrub the toilets, someone has to farm the food, there's only so much beachfront real-estate in the world, and many of us like having a world.