Today, we suffer the absurdist condition of growing insecurity, stress, and pessimism concerning our future, despite living with great and ever-growing material abundance. Generating this absurdity is laissez-faire ideology that has legitimated public policies over the past 50 years that have led to exploding inequality, reduced longevity, less secure employment, soaring medical expenses, and for many, loneliness and despair. Currently this ideology is threatening the future of democracy, without which ecological Armageddon may be unavoidable. This book has argued that what is necessary to redirect our trajectory is an attractive alternative to laissez-faire ideology’s vision of our future. This alternative vision is grounded in the fact that, beyond basic material needs and security, humans flourish when living within social institutions that best enable the attainment of social and self-respect—outcomes that are most promisingly forthcoming in the realm of work. The two reforms of guaranteed employment and measures to advance workplace democracy are proposed, both leaving intact capitalism’s two principal institutions of private property and markets. These reforms are neither revolutionary nor utopian, but recreate conditions humans evolved to find pleasurable and in which they flourished. This chapter ends with reflections on reasons to be optimistic that these reforms can be achieved.