I’d argue that’s a separate and more deeply rooted issue.

At some level of abstraction, most of the currently prosperous IT companies could be seen as barely producing anything of value, and our startup culture kinda goes in the same way (purely looking at the rate of success vs failures gives a grim picture regarding the amount of time dedicated to these failures).

We have many justifications for that, but at no point I’d see our field as being hyperfocused on only solely bringing actual value to the world.

PS: that’s not just our field of course, ad business comes right to my mind, but we probably have many other work field with very little ‘value’ when looked from a high enough perspective.