Anthony Bourdain wrote a book celebrating and documenting workers in kitchens. How hard they have to work for so little, how the standards are poor and safety is lacking and so on. At the end he was just like, "welp, that's kitchen work!"

I dont know what it is but some libs get stuck at being able to go to the root cause of the systemic issues plaguing life. Presumably, theres a fear that revolution and upending the system will lead to a loss for themselves - and it will, perhaps, but they have the rest of the world to gain. Your friend may not be ready for socialist theory lit, but "Reform or Revolution" is a great classic. Maybe you could get him and you to study it together.

Adam Curtis talked about this a bit, do you really want an upheaval? Or do you want things to change just a little bit? You get to keep all or most of your privileges and acquired wealth, but black people aren't treated poorly and gays can marry and the immigrants get to come in. The revolutionary future is exciting and wild but also uncertain. Libs dont have that pure blackpill-esque hatred of the bougies and the elite, nor the bad material circumstances that leave capitalism as an empty promise, theyre comfortable enough and frightened of losing what little they have.