Making money itself may not be hard; if you're willing to sacrifice your life, there are plenty of ways to trade for it. But getting it back? That's the real challenge.
You can trade your life for money, but money can never buy back the life you missed.
Focus on the primary contradiction, which means figuring out what you want, or to be more specific, what you want at this current stage.
Things gradually transform through practice. As we keep practicing and accumulating small wins, our own circumstances will change.
This really comes down to experience. When someone has lived in comfort for too long, they treat it as the baseline. When someone has lived in harsh conditions for too long, they treat cruelty as the baseline. The former thinks it's fine to let you take time off—it's only right. The latter thinks it's fine to make you work overtime—it's only right.
Whether he treats you well or abuses you, you're still a puppet.