He’s saying to pick your battles man
Enlightened mind.
Marx didnt say do everything all the time.
Marx said do what matters and that power structures are only dismantled in certain, specific ways. Returning power to Labor is that way.
I didn't give up. Far from it. I don't make money from capitalists, in fact I bleed them for the kind of work I do, which is serving the community.
The first question anyone should ask themselves is what kind of labor they do, who benefits from that labor, and what is the value of that labor to someone else.
Plenty of people chiming in to call me on this or say I'm old or have given up are slinging corporate jobs making someone else rich. The real moral shitshake is the person who does that and then chastises someone else for buying shoes when we've been stripped of moral choices by the kind of people you're currently making money for.