I understand your sentiments completely, I have encountered a similar dilemma as a long practicing Engineer, I embarked on a PhD in 2017 with the original intention of developing a new metaverse related product to market, but realised that the market itself would have to change from something profit driven to accept it, but even more profound was the realisation of many of the other beneficial things being prevented by the profit driven world.
Since then it has been my mission in Medium to try to help bring what I believe is a critical mass of understanding, needed to move beyond the old profit driven world, which in the end is unsustainable in every sense, as it fundamentally depends on stored energy which is running out.