[armchairhacker]

I think the way most individuals should help society, is just by trying to make the world a better place than if they weren't here. That's by doing small things: being nice to people, picking up trash, buying sustainable and donating when they can, and not using their money towards bad interests when they can.

Unfortunately the world can be a very very cruel place, and there are a lot of broken systems that aren't going to be fixed anytime soon. There are a lot of bad people in power, and a lot of good people who spend their lives suffering, and there's nothing you can do about it. But as terrible as the world is, people overlook that it can also be a nice place. There's just too much complexity to figure out anything in the global, grand scheme of things, so you have to focus on local, gradual changes.