“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
They must become beasts or machines (not humans) as their labor is all they can offer, and is often not enough.
The idea that one could “dwell on their ignorance” to overcome it is a “stolen hour against one’s creditors.” They must become machines (not humans) as their labor is all they can offer, and is seldom enough.
The reality of life provides no dignity, just perpetual abasement and brutality.
So, any advice you offer is irrelevant: it comes from those who have not lived the life that precludes thought and does not contend with the enslavement to circumstance so common to most people.