Society will pay you for creating what it wants and delivering it at scale
Society will pay you for creating things that it wants.
Almost everything that’s in your house, in your workplace, and on the street used to be technology at one point in time. There was a time when oil was a technology, that made J.D. Rockefeller rich. There was a time when cars were technology, that made Henry Ford rich.
Danny Hillis famously said technology is everything that doesn’t work yet. So, society always wants new things.