I agree that the future looks so bleak we ought to be wearing miners’ helmets.
I have developed a solution: “A Fully Just Economy” here in Medium. If it matters, I do have an M.A. in economics.
On the cover of my book, A Just Solution (2004), “environmental sustainability” ranks second only to justice as a desirable outcome this model would achieve. (The others are “no unemployment or poverty,” “yet no limit on income or property,” and “no taxes.”) It would also eliminate exploitation. It could be implemented in any nation with a single legislative Act; no tearing down of any of the existing institutional structure is required.