The famous "I'm gonna ask stupid questions to make it sounds like I'm right and there is no other way"

Your "society" is made of people and rules, people make choices, people vote for rules, if enough people tells you their situation sucks it might swing the pendulum in the other direction. "life is life" has never been a very strong line to defend.

At some point we'll have to go back to being human and stop considering money as the main driving force of every single things we do in life.