The only solution I can see that has worked historically (and not without bloodshed) are mass work stoppages aka general strikes a lá the Polish Solidarity Movement. And the results of that uprising/social movement still took three decades to yield any meaningful results like free and fair elections. My point: We aren’t fixing this in our lifetimes. Encourage your kids and other young people to avoid the combination of traditional employment and any consumer debt for as long as it takes to develop some skills and a market for their own “thing” that enables some tax free earnings and maybe the purchase of a little piece of land and a small home. Even if it’s cutting grass, cutting hair, fixing things for people, anything. Once you get a 9-5 job “on the books” and a mortgage, and people relying on you for three squares a day and a roof over their heads, activism and opting out gets a lot more costly.
And the coup d’état is the policy enacted some twenty years ago in our country that denies workers access to employment insurance benefits if they quit or are fired from a job. So even if you are being totally screwed over for inflation indexed raises, your only choice is to move on to the next similarly exploitive position for another rich fuck who will be more than happy to capitalize on your initial couple years of enthusiasm. This policy, and at source income tax deductions together have effectively enslaved a whole generation of Canadians overnight. Just have to make it to the finish line, stack Sats and try to find what happiness we can. And resist anything and everything that reeks of authority.