Well, survival is the main reason we enter into society. True, you are 'feeding the machine,' but if you're savvy enough you're also using it to get what you want. And survival should not be an end unto itself. It's why you enter, but it's not why you stay. You stay to find a way to thrive, and to fight what you don't like about it. As you gain control over your own life, you find that you have more power to do something about the parts you dislike.

It sounds like the people you've found aren't too thrilled about society, so you fit in with them. I know a lot of people like this. They might take jobs that others find distasteful or wild. Tattoo designers, for example. Things that reflect rebellion. That counterculture is also part of society and you might find a place for yourself in counterculture. Or foreign lands.

Really, we need more people to fight against the negative aspects of our society. But if you can't even get to a place where you can support yourself, it's very hard to instigate that change. If you do get into it, do it to better yourself and then in the end to make a difference. You are right that for many people there is no point. But that doesn't have to be the case. We choose what we wish to make of our lives. It's just too bad we couldn't decide the world we were born into. But then again, if we were born into a perfect world, then there would be nothing left to accomplish. I think every person needs goals.