Are we 'on our own' in the big bad world?

I was chartised by someone close to me about my choice in friends, it really hurt to think that the mentality that still abounds in this capitalist society. you're on your own and only worth what you can bring in. We think we should isolate ourselves from the 'bad element' and create our own little area of paradise in our global sea of suffering. I don't want to accept that our future lies in a short term outlook, unequal quality of health and opportunity society. I want food for the hungry, not bombs for the rich. I want to be free to travel to any corner of a city on foot, in total safety. I want to choose my work, i want to be part of a civil movement that cherishes human rights over corporate rights. Local consideration over corporate
convenience. I think we need to start to expose the failings of capitalism at the levels of global trade. Unemployment globally sits at about 30% which is worse than it was in the usa during the 'great depression'. I feel alone, it seems to me that all the people i know(mostly well off) are conceding that the system will stay the way it always has and there's no real point in trying to change it. They usually concede that yes the situation with millions of homo sapians starving to death is tragic even though we have the technology and food surpluses around the world to feed everyone. It seems no one has the will to leaves their comfort zone which is really just consentual wage slavery, the rat race, capitalism or whatever you call it....
Bleh