Fair enough.
> Keep up the good fight, but also try to find a liveable space within our current reality.
The truth is that I think many of us are attempting to do just that (what choice do we have?). We're merely having a conversation in addition to doing whatever we can do survive which acknowledges very real, measurable, growing inequalities and moral failures which are both logically nonsensical and harmful.
We exist in the real world, we just refuse to accept that the work world ought to be shitty.
For example, you state that "I've been in the work force for 40 years (professional truck driver) and have never had a job that I was truly happy to go to."
We know we're pissing against the wind and that the power exists in foundations that we have limited access to. Jarvis goes into great detail about the global capitalist substructure and how time and education is are most likely opportunity to form a learning society which will reject it on a global level, but also acknowledges that little else can be done due to the engrained nature of that substructure.
Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed talks about the loss of humanity in both the oppressed and the oppressors and how dialog and organization will be among the most effective tools to restore humanity and wipe out oppression.
That's what we're doing - being part of that dialog and taking those steps forward in time and education where things can be better.
We know it won't happen tomorrow. But this is part of the journey.