Physics is the problem that nature has thrown at us. Technology problems are something that we create to solve real problems. Unfortunately, we lost the real problem solving part somewhere and the biggest technological problem we have now is how to keep eyeballs throughout the globe glued to your app or service.
Of course, it will feel crappy in solving that problem.
I mean it is insane to me on a rational level that an embedded engineer/programmer working for a company designing avionics software/train control software in the UK/France or Germany earns less (by half) what someone in SV does working for some start-ups.
I get the whole "they are paid what the market determines they are worth thing" but intuitively I find it weird.
If I could do my life over again I'd have gone to Uni and done electronics and then moved into that kind of field, not for the money - it's about the same but because it is interesting and you get to point at a train or plane and say "it's safer because I did my job".
Humans are amazing, the whole planet full of life is amazing. And instead of exploring everything the universe has provided for us, for itself, we have created a shitty prison for everyone involved.
I sat on the beach yesterday watching a 4 and half billion year fire that is burning 8 light minutes away, overhearing two ladies in their mid 50s talk about how much money they were making flipping houses and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY
The universe doesn't care if you contemplate it or not, it doesn't care if a couple of 50 year olds make their money selling pieces of dirt with some bricks on for more than they paid.
Enjoy your life, do the things that make you content (and I say content not happy carefully here, happiness is fleeting, contentedness lasts).
Of course, it will feel crappy in solving that problem.