Sadly......it's not at all baffling, and you answered it with this sentence:
'To me, it looks like a load of lazy arseholes quoting meaningless rules that means everyone has to pay their way for them with money that they decide the value of.'
The only people with the power to change the system are the very people who stand to lose most by changing it. Turkeys, after all, would never vote for Christmas...
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'To me, it looks like a load of lazy arseholes quoting meaningless rules that means everyone has to pay their way for them with money that they decide the value of.'
The only people with the power to change the system are the very people who stand to lose most by changing it. Turkeys, after all, would never vote for Christmas...