So, what's so special about this answer? Seems like a pasta, replace "mathematics" by {SUBJECTNAME} and you get yet another popular idea of the day. Startup founders, for one, having been claiming they are "contributing to humanity" for ages now.
People often think of mathematics as uniquely objective, and as standing apart from the social processes of collaboration and invention. And mathematics kind of is special in some of those ways.
But mathematicians know, while laypeople might not, that at its core, mathematics remains a social endeavor just like the rest of the sciences. That's the piece which is a really valuable reminder imo.
