One day I’m gonna invent the glib way of saying “we’ll do everything to fix this as long as it’s not the solution” because it’s a pattern I see constantly.
People drowning in the channel? We’ll spend £100k a person making sure the experience of surviving the crossing is so miserable that people don’t start. And it doesn’t work!
People doing sex work? The same people who think it’s the moral issue of our time are absolutely determined to do everything except give people enough money to live.
Don't discount the possibility that maybe the solution that seems so obvious to you has been considered by experts and upon deeper study found to have serious issues and maybe wouldn't work after all.
I always remember once hearing a podcast with a recurring segment called, "Why don't they just...?" where they took obvious solutions like these and asked experts why they didn't implement them. So often there were **really good reasons** not to implement the ideas.
These issues are more complicated than I think you're giving them credit for, especially once humans are involved.
