I actually thought there were some interesting ideas in this editorial. I think the most astute one is :

Gandhi would underscore that social transformation requires significant responsibility on the part of each of us. The world is not a static system or an unalterable one. Society exists in a certain way when we enter it, but it is our actions or our inaction that maintain the status quo, make things worse, or transform them for the better. Gandhi explained this most pointedly when he declared that the British Empire existed because Indians had let it exist. He would say the same thing about the drastic income inequality in America today: it is here because Americans collectively allow it to be here.

I think there is something to this. We have a system here in the US that we have all bought into to one extent or another and until a majority of people decided to take action, it will not change.