This is the key. I know older people who act like they’re in their twenties, and 30 year olds who act like curmudgeonly old men. My girlfriend’s grandfather decided almost overnight that he was an old man and suddenly began to act the part.

Half of age is perspective.

I mean, that’s what makes the most sense logically, but if the statistics actually show that it reduces inequality by implementing the system like this, I guess it’s good? My initial reaction is negative, but their argument kind of makes sense: certain ethnicities receive poorer treatment earlier on, leading to worse outcomes requiring more surgery, so they should be operated on first.

Obviously the best solution would be to remove the inequality in the other parts of the system, but that’s hard to do. The article says that they tested this system on a small scale first and saw that it successfully reduced inequality, hence why they’re rolling it out on a larger scale. If that’s true, then I would support it, so long as they were also trying to reduce the inequality already built into the system. But, I would also want to see what their criteria for determining inequality is, and what statistics they actually collected first.

I certainly never viewed it as a social media site. I joined it as a link aggregator and a way to find information on topics I thought were interesting, not make friends. It always seems odd to me when people refer to it as a social media site.