Ask HN: What does the world need from software engineers now?

I’m at big tech making rich people richer. I feel that poverty is one of the biggest problems in America and I don’t really feel anything I do directly, or at least with a large impact, helps resolve of those issues at a macro level. In fact, I’d wager 100% of work all my friends in software do doesn’t directly resolve necessity problems in the world today.

My question is.. are there problems we NEED software engineers for BADLY today? What are they? How to break into the area?

I’m 28 and would like to know if I should spend my time pursuing other fields like law and policy to help improve the world instead of writing software at big tech