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So you need to reform that. "It's always been this way" means that it'll never change.

• giraffe_lady 3y ago
  It's really not reformable in the way people normally mean by that word. The incentives and constraints that create this environment are core to the history, identity, and civil-political mechanics of the systems themselves. The individual people acting within these systems are actively opposed to reform, and there isn't a mechanism to force it without their cooperation. The solution really is to scrap the whole thing and try something else entirely.
  • Asooka 3y ago
    > scrap the whole thing and try something else entirely. Ah, made anew, or re-formed.
    • giraffe_lady 3y ago
      Reform and re-form are different words in contemporary usage. Destroying an object to use its resources to make a new one with a different purpose would be re-forming and yes that is what I'm advocating here. I was careful to indicate which meaning I intended in my originally comment, but of course you can never be so careful as to avoid a bad faith nitpicking here on hacker news can you.