I think I'm like 90% the way there already, I dealt with it by simply giving up on humanity.
I see everyone who is working class as essentially slave labor with extra steps. You get the "freedom" to live how you want, as long as you are working to earn a living because you're not worthy of being alive if you aren't helping someone pursue their capitalistic dreams. You're also "free" to choose where you want to live, because every square inch of the planet is "owned" by someone (with few exceptions), and you'll either end up having to pay someone to buy land to live on, or pay someone with land every month indefinitely to use their land to live.
Comparing today's working conditions to slavery: slaves are frequently provided food and shelter. They're also frequently provided medical care (though, there's a limit where you're not worth keeping alive). Everything is provided for you by the master. You're not paid, but you also don't need money to continue to live. In modern times you "choose" your job from an array of equally bad options, all of which barely pay you enough to buy food, and afford rent, and often, they pay less than a living wage, so you need to pool how much you make with others too have a place to stay. You don't get to rise up or progress to a more prestigious position in society, you're at the bottom and that's where you will stay. Except for you being given enough means to provide for yourself the same things you would be provided for free as a slave, there's little difference between the two.
The most notable difference is that you can't whip employees. There's no lashings for stepping out of line. Though, we could draw correlations between lashings and what happens in prison, but I digress.
Economically, most of society might actually be better off with working for room and board, since then they don't need to worry about how to pay the bills, that's all taken care of for them.
The choices we have available to us as the writing class are a farce to convince those that cannot see the bigger picture, into believing they are free. The educational system has been eroded and dumbed down enough that the vast majority of people fit the criteria of just smart enough to do the work, but not smart enough to question it, or anything else.
The abstraction of thought is an interesting consideration, one I've done some research into. Our mind is the only known thing which has named itself.
With that being said, I think you would enjoy "thinking fast and slow" (it's a book). In that book he goes into detail about fast thinking which is heuristical and what we refer to as "muscle memory", "habit", or "doing without thinking". The interesting assertion he made about this "system 1" as he calls it, is that it lacks any ability to consider a statement as false. Every statement that goes into system 1, is considered to be true unless otherwise determined. System 2, or slow thinking, is more sapient and contemplative. This is what we would think is "us" as an abstract concept. Almost all of the information that goes into system 2 is filtered by system 1, so unless we reevaluate more carefully directing system 1 to examine everything, we are working off of incomplete data. Only what system 1 believes is relevant for the circumstances for system 2 to know. The rest is filtered out (to varying extents, depending on what executive function you have) as unnecessary. Things like background noises, other people speaking to eachother, signs, text, and other visual markers that are not important to what we're currently doing (and have not historically been important). System 1 just discards that data constantly.
I would say that universally, we all use the faculties of system 1 quite extensively, but we are largely unaware of it... We operate on "autopilot" more or less. There's a nontrivial number of people who seem to actively refuse to engage system 2, and do any cognitive and logical thinking. When they must, they do the bare minimum, and often opt to follow whatever tribe they identify as a part of. Whether that tribe is a sports team, a country, a political system or politician, or it's a religion or something. They turn to those people whom they trust (for better or worse) to make the best decision for them, and tell them what to think. This is especially bad because often, those people are making selfish choices. They're directing people to achieve an objective that benefits them directly, often at the expense of those who are following along.
This whole thing has more or less been beaten into us, both by family, friends, and communities, but also ingrained into us as a survival trait from when we hunted and gathered primarily. Where the survival of the tribe was the most important thing, at the cost of all other tribes and people and creatures.
We no longer need that survival trait of going along with whatever tribe we were born into, but it's not one we can easily disregard, since it's been ingrained in our cultural persona since we started walking around, many millennia ago.
There's still plenty of people walking up to the fact that they don't need to follow along to what others want of you, or do as they tell you to do. Getting away from the strong tribalism that is now mostly just a plague on humanity.
The problem is that the thinkers are independent, and neither want to follow, nor lead.
So here we are. Trajectory set to failure. Following these tribal leaders serving their own interests above all others. Removing one tribal leader just creates a part vacuum where another will step in to take their place, someone who is just as bad or worse with few exceptions.