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This is all very bad for our society. But maybe I do agree with you that more people of modest wealth should take advantage of it. This would make the problem more visible, and thus more likely to be fixed.



I've come to this counterintuitive solution too.

There are a lot of things that people do in society which I've declined to do as well because I feel that they're wrong but I've come to realize the way to make people stop doing those things is to just do them in a really oafish way so that the public sees how bad they are and hopefully they'll fix it.


Fun fact: The equivalent concept in CS terms is "backpressure".


I agree, especially in the case where only the wealthy are doing




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