You can, as you have done, describe the Travellers way of life as choice if you reduce it to simply being born somewhere - as long as you ignore all the cultural baggage that comes with it. Travellers respond to change far better than any other group I know of.
I couldn't help but notice that you didn't respond to my question regarding groups other than Travellers being assisted to survive.
Nor did you address the practicalities of letting the way of life die out.
I've never heard of the recognition of people's difficulties and the desire to help as 'victimhood by proxy' - that could have come straight out of Margaret Thatcher's dictionary of thoughts for the day, or even Norman Tebbitt's instruction for cyclists.
In my experience, the phrase 'life is tough is usually the mantra of those for whom it definitely isn't.
I'm glad that your 'Brave New World' of dog-eat-dog is not mine.
Jim Carroll