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> Philosophy helps question and understand, it hasn't historically been a driver of change.

Why do you say understanding isn't a driver of change? It seems to be pretty important to me.

Driver? No. Heck, I hardly know any philosophers. But most of our big ideas were written down by a philosopher and then, decades later, read by to-be-important people at the beginnings of a social movement.

Social philosophy influences societal change, by providing ideas. Without philosophers, activists have to be more visionary than they already are, making them rarer.

(Moral philosophy, not really, I'll agree with you.)

> Philosophy helps question and understand, it hasn't historically been a driver of change.

You kind of put your foot in it with this comment. Societal change, for the most part, directly follows questioning and understanding.