I feel like the outrage at this sort of stuff is because people with good choices instinctively know if you cut schmuck a break, he might get ahead of you. I just remembered once playing monopoly. One of the kids playing busted out. Or would have but I handed him a wad of my money. Kid who was winning then had a complete meltdown.
Come to think of it, Monopoly is a hilariously vile game and it's pretty odd that its still PC to sell it.
This "solution" that I see right now is the short-termist, feel-good solution that comes crashing down in the "not-my-problem-I-already-got-relected" future.
Some might have better choices than others, but you still should be optimizing for the local "best" choice to align with the global "best" choice.
That doesn't optimize anything. It just means some people get shafted and become cynical about "taking one for the team."
It tends to be the people with the best opportunities and the most resources who snidely look down their nose and pretend other people just didn't try hard enough, work hard enough, sacrifice enough, etc.
This is part of how racism and other social ills remain entrenched: Don't give folks the same opportunities, then blame them when their life sucks and attribute it to personal moral failure.