Ask HN: How can I fight inequality with programming?

One aspect of HN that fascinates and frustrates me is that it's techno-utopianism often masques a strong conservative orthodoxy (lowercase C) - a feeling that Great Men with Great Ideas push forward the world, in a beautiful onward march of reason and capitalism that - even if it doesn't work for the suicides at Foxconn making iPhones - sounds wonderfully inclusive and of course delivers on that promise of faster internet and services integration (for those who Deserve it, at least).

I don't buy that. And I don't want to live in that world, much as I must.

I don't want to build an SaaS app, "another Uber," or anything in the vein of a sharing economy which attempts to fulfill Dicken's fear of "cash beecoming the sole nexus between all human beings" and that commoditizes and monetizes every element of waking life. I'm sick of sitting in meetings and being asked to think about how I can force something someone doesn't want and can't pay for down their throat. I'm sick of engaging in sales meetings that treat humanity as a vast herd, where the weakest and disadvantaged are ruthlessly exploited as a matter of course.

Where do I go? What open-source can I support that supports distributive justice? That actually supports the public good, and isn't just a profit-making machine I lie about to make myself feel OK?

In other words: How can I escape the endless, empty self-congratulations of Silicon Valley and make something that matters? I know people are doing it - I want to help in any way I can.