The United States has this system for a reason. In European countries, the state government comes in and handles all kinds of disputes and righting of wrongs. Because of this, lawyers and the legal process play less of a part.
The US was set up to basically keep government out of the business of individuals. Many of the ways that government is currently involved, e.g. the “administrative agencies” like Social Security Administration and various Departments of this and that, were only set up 150 years after the country had been going, and in response to the problems of the Great Depression. Since the government is essentially designed to stay out of individuals’ business, the legal system is the way people handle disputes and righting of wrongs, as they can’t just take their problems to the central government or to a monarch.
In recent decades, there has been a big shift towards negotiation, such as mediation, to handle a lot of legal disputes. Very few disputes even go to court. Many of them are settled out of court via insurance companies and the like.
A person asking this question, to me, just shows that they know very little about the US legal system and probably are approaching the matter with a simplistic or uneducated perspective.
