In an unforgiving hyper-competitive world, the best you can do is try hard. Less time to have fun, less time to enjoy life but that is the reality. Is it fair? No. Does that matter? Also no.

This line may explain what you were able to do in the current state of the economy, but it fails to explain why people aren't in the labour force, and it claims that fairness doesn't matter. It does to many people, especially those who are at a disadvantage in the labour market (ie. people from low-income families, immigrants, visible minorities, youth who can't afford a university education).

Wall of text with hopefully valuable life lessons ahead

A more accurate headline would be "wall of text with recommendations and claims based on personal anecdotes". You do make a good point about automation taking away jobs.

Government can be Conservative or Liberal or NDP or any combination or variation inside or outside of these and they will make no appreciable difference in a global trend of progressively crappier job market.

Our government has a set of economic policies. You're claiming that our national economic policy makes no appreciable difference in a "progressively crappier" job market, now and in the future, when the goal of having economic policy is to prevent bad economic situations / preserve stability.

With such a pessimistic, give-up-all-hope viewpoint, and an impassioned wall of text, it almost seems as if you don't really care what happens, because everything worked out for you. You worked hard? Good for you!

Telling someone who works two jobs, pays their own tuition, takes a full course load, has debt looming over their shoulder, other obligations to take care of, no well-off family to rely on, etc. to "try harder" is going to go in one ear and out the other, because they are living on that slippery slope of income inequality that won't allow them to have the ladders you were able to climb.