Having worked at a large variety of tech companies, I think it's just largely a self-selection type of stuff. People who work at the most highly paid and most "prestigious" workplaces self-select themselves to be people who only care about the money and social status, especially since these companies require the most studying to get into

I've shared your experiences with other "non-prestigious" companies where people do care a lot more about their work and really just anything other than material goods/money

My current co-workers are the most devoid of interest in the arts, sociology, psychology, really anything related to human expression and condition I've ever seen