You can always throw the argument “it has always been like that” to any discussion, but that’s never going to be a meaningful response to anyone who cares to think critically about whether the status quo is how things should be.
I'm saying that's how things have been, are, and will continue to be.
Any policy, technology, process, etc must take that into account.
I definitely wish that's not how it was, and I don't think that's how it should be, but we have to work with what we have to work with.
There are plenty of ways to get people to rise to their best selves, rather than sink to their worst selves, as they are in this context while competing for high paying jobs, and we should always try to induce the best outcomes possible.
I think this what you're getting at by suggesting we don't just give up, despite knowing what we know about human nature. But we also shouldn't deny the hard truth that humans won't anyways behave the way we wish they did.
