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The most common version of this is just demanding we should have "more" and "better" of something (healthcare, mental health support, prison rehabilitation services, education, support for mothers, etc.) Obviously it would be great if we just woke up tomorrow and that happened but, even in spite of the fact that everyone seems to agree with those as goals, it doesn't happen. Insisting that it must comes from this assumption that we as a "society" just have ample resources and we're holding it back out of meanness. It also assumes that even if we could tangibly afford to fund all these things that there are enough talented and morally sound people to fill the demand for quality doctors, teachers, and therapists.
That's not to say that bad actors don't make things a lot harder, they do. But they are just one of several factors and the people who supposedly want to stop them don't do shit about it, or even show some balls when it comes to thinking about them and identifying the problem.
I think that making people more cynical and aware of just how much of a factor scarcity is would ultimately make things a lot better, we would be a lot slower to consent to anything that would shrink the overall pie we have to cut out of (like shutting down the whole fucking economy and world for two years to theoretically save a few extra people from the flu).