Living in utopian abundance would be even better but sometimes not every option is feasible, especially in the short term. The objectively inferior option might still be better than doing nothing.
Inefficient hacks are often worse than nothing because they remove the momentum behind fixing the underlying problem. You reduce the margin from 2500% to 1000% and think you're helping, but what you're really doing is condemning yourself to paying a 1000% margin forever because it's now below the threshold that people get outraged enough to do something about it.
