So what anyone would consider a strict improvement over the previous situation is criticized because it isn't enough of an improvement. Perhaps it isn’

So what anyone would consider a strict improvement over the previous situation is criticized because it isn't enough of an improvement. Perhaps it isn’t enough of an improvement. Putting our best straw men into service, imagine if we had unrestricted child labour, and the government introduced a law saying that children under twelve could not work more than eight hours a day and were to be allowed Sundays and Holidays off. That would be a strict improvement over the hypothetical previous situation, and would still be unacceptable to most civilized persons.