When your employer tells you something needs to be done
On one hand, you're right. You are absolutely describing the dominant paradigm. This is reality for most humans, and has been for most of history.
On the other hand, that's shit. If we continue to accept that, then that's what we will continue to have.
On the gripping hand, allowing the dickheads at the top of the ziggurat to eat all of our resources is unsustainable, so it won't continue indefinitely. At some point the whole thing collapses and goes full cannibal. And all we have to change to get there is nothing, so if you're tired of this, just wait!