I agree that the underlying system needs to be changed. But what I’m arguing is you have a system that is not ideal, and you have bandaids on that system. For example, it’s very not ideal that restaurant servers depends on tips for a living. However, if you stop tipping without requiring restaurants to pay servers a living wage, aren’t you screwing over the server, not the restaurant? Or do you leave those bandaids in place and try and fundamentally change the underlying system?

I’m asking. I don’t know the history of how systems like this have been changed in the past. But the examples I gave, in my mind, were all systems in our society that are broken and have bandaid solutions. It’s not ideal that we offer better services to vets with PTSD, it’s not ideal that restaurant wait staff requires tips to pay rent, and it’s not ideal that student loans are required to pay for an education.