Be the change you want to see in the world. Feel free to quit your job and go bankrupt while trying and most likely failing to make the world a better place.

Maybe we can set up our economic system such that the only way to make profit is to deliver utility more cheaply than other companies.

That way, doing good wouldn't be something on the side -- it would be the main thrust of our competitive economic system.

(setting things up this way is my life goal)

Yes and yes.

Should neurosurgeons make good money?

There's nothing wrong with profit. I think how we measure it needs reform.

Tautologically true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(rhetoric)

Yes, no.

Family man here, yes.