You're not an idealist with your head in the clouds. Too many people can't imagine anything else and believe this is as good as it gets, yet we live in a minority's fantasy. We are an imaginative species that can create something much better than this, but we must remember how to think and dream about something other than pointless materials.
A revolution is brewing, and Latin America is leading it, but France isn't far behind. People are fed-up with destroying themselves and the environment for purposeless jobs and shitty paychecks.
There is no meaning but work, consumption, sleep, and hopefully, retirement before death. We're miserable because we need intimacy and fulfillment. We adapted to an existence that denies psychological needs because we're too busy working and worrying about buying survival.
Imagine a world where we didn't spend most of our time worrying - endless possibilities.