You're hired to make money for the company.

... In theory yes, but company incentive structures don't always amount to this.

If you take that too literally and act on your own initiative in ways unrelated to your job description, you may well be dismissed for circumventing upper-management decisionmaking and not staying in your lane, even if you make money for the company in the process.

Or if you make tons of money for your company doing what you were hired to do, but do so from home in violation of a mandatory RTO order, you may quickly be replaced by someone who makes less money for your company but sits in the correct cubicle.

In reality, you're not merely hired to make money for the company, you're hired to do your job, even if it's not the maximally profitable action.

most people forget this one