Which paradigm do you speak of?
The phrase "means to an end" is what I was thinking of.
This is, in my opinion, degenerate.
I need to explain what I meant. I was not referring to the benevolence of the approach but rather the endlessness of it since it does not offer any guarantees that the "upper group" or the "subclassed group" are ever going to have their problem resolved accurately. There's no hindrance to creating an endless stream of problems from the attempting to solve a different problem. To a respect, that's the approach the current political system supports, the solving of problems using at worst half-solutions.