How what I do helps make the world a better place

Entrepreneurs don't NEED VCs, but a VC can't do anything without entrepreneurs seeking investment.

Some percentage of entrepreneurs get funded, some percentage of those actually make it. You need both, but there are fewer VCs than entrepreneurs. Therefore VCs have more reach even though they don't directly effect change. The potential of the change that happens is driven by the entrepreneurs of course. Trying to fit that into a "who's more important" hierarchy is just wanking. Reality doesn't fit in such a simple model.

Entrepreneurs, duh. There are lots of ways to get money.

My goodness, a VC has never, not once, changed the world. Unless they were an entrepreneur first.

"An entrepreneur is an enterprising individual who builds capital through risk and/or initiative." According to this definition, a VC is an entrepreneur. If that is the case, then it would seem entrepreneurs would have more power to change the world as VC's are a subset of entrepreneurs. :)