No. Nor should you. You run a node almost entirely for your own benefit.

None indeed. Not unless you are pairing your node with a miner and using DATUM to create block templates from your own node's mempool. But there is privacy benefit, and you have personal confidence about the Bitcoin you own, because you can see it on your own copy of the chain, rather than relying on someone elses. Also, you can run a lightning node on top of it and avoid the rug-pull risks of custodial lightning entirely.

no its religious

No. But you become your own sovereign bank.

I mean, sure, why not

Most of the time, no. Most run a node to a) be more self sovereign and b) to serve bitcoin by making it a little more decentralized. Some node runners optionally install Lightning services. By opening channels with other nodes to route Lightning payments, your node can charge and earn a small amount of fees.

Yeah I see you need a lightning node as well as a Bitcoin node. .just trying to weigh up the opportunity cost of running a node, with hardware and software, plus mining and if you ever even make that back or if it's just a write off in "good spirits".

For the most part, you run a node for altruistic and privacy reasons.

Yeah not economic. Interesting. I wonder if that justifys it enough or whether it's better to use a trusted node

The most trusted node is your own. ;-)