You say, "... so there was no need to disrupt the entire system to address the needs of the minority."
However, the Bible doesn't agree with you. As it says in Matthew, Chapter 25, 41 through 46:
"For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ “Then he will say, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
I don't know about you, jgd, but I don't want to take a chance on ending up in that "eternal fire".