What is "beating the system"

Usage examples of "beating the system".

Somewhere in the nightmare of failure that gripped America between 1965 and 1970, the old Berkeley-born notion of beating The System by fighting it gave way to a sort of numb conviction that it made more sense in the long run to Flee, or even to simply hide, than to fight the bastards on anything even vaguely resembling their own terms.

What was the Hangman's overall motivation apart from the satisfaction he seemed to obtain from beating the system?

Yet he felt that he owed it to the old boy, who had, after all, passed on to Rex a most efficient method for beating the system, whilst leaving little else behind as a testament to his existence but for a pair of smoking boots and a charred remote controller.

Vals, too, have been beating the system for a long time, you know.

It put additional roadblocks in the way of my ever breaking the bonds that held me, of beating the system.

It meant that although the organization ticket won, he would, in the public eye at least, have the credit of beating the System, of going into office unhampered, of having assured beyond doubt what was at best only problematical with the Reform League.