I feel like we see this in all sorts of disciplines with law – e.g. the massive pile of minimum wage, idle time protection, tipping protection, etc. that NYC now has for delivery drivers.

People don't seem to realize (other than Regulatory Response Fees), the extent to which the city _has_ addressed a lot of the issues with being a delivery driver [1].

A lot of folks therefore still make a bunch of outdated arguments and advocate for things that already exist, or try to _forcibly_ find/portray that things _must_ still be broken, because they argue as if the inputs follow from the conclusion they believe must inevitably always be true (e.g. believing that people 'must' be being screwed over).

Probably also very simply downstream from 'once you've developed an organization to argue for a cause, the cause can't cleanly retire itself'.

[1]: https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/news/073-26/report-finds-nyc-de... (lede: workers’ average hourly earnings, including tips, increased from $10.48 in Q3 2023 to $27.03 in Q2 2026).