If people are growing their own food on their own homestead, what does a corporation have to offer them to leave that, and work a soul crushing job? When you have your basic needs met, it takes a lot more than money to get people to work for you.

Exactly, the current system only works because we allow it to. Now, you have to be realistic that the alternate route requires most humans to become disciplined and find worth outside the shiny bright objects and this is the difficult part