Nono, that's the part I agree with you about. Shit has to get bad, real bad, for there to be change. We're in total agreement.
The part I'm disagreeing with is what comes after. Whatever solution we have to living wage, fixing our problems, etc, will be done in a half ass way so that these problems rear their heads again and never quite go away for the forseeable future. Just like the way the North let the South erect statures, reject education materials in schools about the Civil War, etc.
Americans doesn't do long term shame, basically, is what I'm saying. You thought we solved racism and were trending in the right direction with the abolition of slaves, the civil rights act, etc. And now 60 or so years after that, we're seeing the same shit pop it's head up in DEI. BLACK PEOPLE DID THIS BECAUSE IT CAN'T BE MY FAULT. Same thing with women. "Oh, now that women can have careers of their own or choose to be with women, they don't have to settle for any POS man? Well, that's not acceptable because I want to get laid and be the boss. Better outlaw all that shit and get women back in the kitchen...maybe the classroom."