Foundational Rights

[Amaterasu Solar]

Do I have the betterment Ethic, No.

Not many others do either.

Was raised and educated and worked in just such a society. Their Propaganda Forced and Taught to the People was All For the Betterment Of China and the Children.
Of-Course people were worked to death in the Crop Fields and on Construction Sites and Killed because they did not Produce in the way that The Betterment Squads or Local leaders thought or killed because they disagreed or were to Educated. 

If something is invented by another to better your life in someway, they are only looking at the Profitability of that Marketed Product or Service.

Just Our Humble Opinion

I disagree that "Not many others do either..."  Else no One would be donating to GoFundMe and PayPal for People who need help.  These are Ones who, not having the freedom to help directly (make better), did so by slave token proxy.  And perhaps You mistake some perceived obligation to the state with what the Betterment Ethic truly is.  The Betterment Ethic is helping Others, solving problems where One can, making Others feel better with a smile or kind word.  Not something One is bullied into for some state that gives artificial authority to order followers to do the bullying.

And if there is no money, and something is invented by anOther to better Our lives in someway, it will be because They profit in reputation, thanks, appreciation, attention, lauds, fame, bragging rights, and Self satisfaction.  The application of scarcity paradigm expectations in an abundance paradigm is likely to deliver invalid conclusions.