That isn't even close to true. Capitalist extraction of surplus value is exactly how they make their profits. If they paid you the value you made them, they wouldn't have a profit. If they weren't there to extract that value, you and your fellow workers would make more - it's basic mathematics.

and they make money from me they wouldn’t have otherwise had my skillset to access easily.

This part is true, yes.

I’ve never been forced to take any job…

So, you're saying you're able to retire right now and never work again?

I just play the game instead of bitching about the rules

That's a slave mindset.

That’s the whole point, for me: make my kids’ life better than mine, and I’ve done that so far.

That's cool you can think that small and that selfishly. Others, however, realise you could be living even better, and everyone else, including those with nothing, could have that standard of living, too, if we stop being complacent with mere crumbs.

That's what you have. Mere crumbs of luxury. It's great that you're not on the street, but that is an incredibly low standard to have.