Living a principled life, based on humility, empathy and introspection, and seeing how that positively affects those around me.
Related philosophical pondering:
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Vaclav Havel
Big money in building the Chinese surveillance state:
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88