A Systems takes Inputs. Process Inputs. Produce Outputs.
The Ignored or Unknown Outputs are a Symptoms of the System.
Do you know and fully understand your local entrenched economic/social/power system, System A?
Can you fully understand an alternative, System B?
Could System A co-exist with, System B?
Then, System B is the Parallel System.
Attempting to adapt entrenched systems, System A, is a waste of time.
Develop and Grow a new one, System B.