>>2That sounds like a completely self-defeating attitude. Are you depressed? It sounds like you're trying to rationalize not putting in the effort to get the results you want.
I agree to some extent that life is rigged, especially by those in power, but even so, you have to try. You can't just be an apathetic nihilist. There are very real goals to work towards. Don't give up, even if it seems hard or insurmountable. Change doesn't happen overnight, but it can happen if you put time and effort in.
Hopes and dreams shouldn't be pleb shit, it can be something like having a good career to fund having a family so you can raise kids who actually have a moral compass in our increasingly-degenerate society which is in desperate need of people who can steer civilization back on the right path. That's a noble cause, don't you think? And you can teach them programming too. You can tell them your opinions about the tragedy of modern consumerism, just like you mentioned. Don't you want your ideas and work to continue even when you're gone?
Some of my friends from high school are already having kids, and one of them is teaching his kid to play video games already. I think that's really sad. People are devolving and getting into bread and circus as an escape for how terrible their life is, as opposed to trying to fix problems. Leisure is their reason to live. A useless existence, except to help line other people's pockets thanks to the Ponzi scheme we call capitalism.
Despite the name, computer science isn't really about computers. Algorithms, complexity theory, combinatorics, math... it's about problem-solving. I am a problem solver. There are many problems in the world and I want to help fix them. I know I'm only one person, but if I gave up, that would be one less person in the world trying to make things better.
We need to stop destroying the planet. We need to colonize mars. We need to reverse the degeneracy of the 21st century (moral decay, mass immigration, etc). We need to overthrow globalist elites who are ruining the world just so they can get some short-term profits. We need to end population replacement in western countries. We need to collectively get our shit together so we can explore the universe, learn more about existence, and continue the existence of our people.
Instead of saying "society sucks, give up" you should have an attitude along the lines of "society sucks, let's do what we can to fix it!"
Don't accept the status quo. Just because things are the way they are now doesn't mean they always will be. Society has undergone rapid change in the past few decades, some good things, some bad. But it's not going to continue to be exactly the way it is now. We can undo some of the horrible things that are currently in place.