Also known as "working hard to keep making money".

> In this mindset it’s challenging to take a pause and consider that the thing you’re building may have harmful aspects.

Gosh, that must be so tough! Forgive me if I don't have a lot of sympathy for that position.

> You can justify it by thinking that if your team wins you can address the problem, but if another company wins the space you don’t get any say in the matter.

If that were the case for a given company, they could publicly commit to doing the right thing, publicly denounce other companies for doing the wrong thing, and publicly advocate for regulations that force all companies to do the right thing.

> When you’re trying so hard to challenge the near-impossible odds and make your company a success, you just don’t want to consider that what you help make might end up causing real societal harm.

I will say this as simply as possible: too bad. "Making your company a success" is simply of infinitesimal and entirely negligible importance compared to doing societal harm. If you "don't want to consider it", you are already going down the wrong path.