Sam also isn't *the* problem. Even his actions, which are based in either ignorance, or malice, or he does so because he took a bribe, or they made a threat of violence to himself or loved ones. Even these are not the problem. They are all effects of a deeper problem.

"But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government."
- Robert Pirsig.

Taking evil down when the effects that caused this evil linger on won't do anything in the long term.

But indeed, what you describe is a solution!
Sidestepping their tools of slavery and revoking our attention to their nightmare is what we are doing right now.