[dragonwriter]

> “The system” isn’t designed by some secret cabal of sinister tricksters who are intending it to fail specific people in specific ways.

That’s true; the elites rigging it to fail often are not at all secret about their intent, the most common of which–for the entire inadequate social safety net–is to ensure that it errs on the side of maintaining economic coercion driving people into accepting poor terms in the labor market to ensure aggregate output and low labor costs and minimize consumption of government-supplied benefits even when it would yield a palpable increase in living conditions.