Patrick McKenzie

Why?

Because go figure teacher students have political power in the state of California.

And they said, well, we'll accept not being in 1A, but we are going no lower than 1B.

And probably no one in that meeting ever said like, I definitely think that 25 year old teachers who are currently under stay at home orders are

Should be in front of the line of people who will die if they get COVID.

But we made that choice.

The state of New York commissioned a consultancy to administer to 75-year-olds a 57-page web application, which required uploading multiple attachments to check for their eligibility.

And talk with a technologist if you don't believe me.

We try to remove everything from a web page that people successfully get through it.

If you can make it two to four fields, that's already taxing people's patience.

And you are asking people who might be suffering from cognitive decline or be less comfortable in using computers to do something which would literally tax the patience and cognitive abilities of a professional software engineer.

Yeah.

That wasn't an accident.

We wanted to do that.

Why did we want to do that?

Because it was extremely important to successfully implement the tiering system that we had agreed upon.

Why was it extremely important to implement the tiering system?

Because that was society's prioritization.

Was that the correct prioritization?

Hell no.