alt Hacker News> Now the acess to best hosptials is gated by a queue?
I mean, yes? Literally the same principle we all learned in kindergarten for how to make access to something fair. You didn't get to skip the line in lunch because your parents had a better job than someone else either.
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dominotw • yesterday at 4:45 PM
right. my point is last line of my comment.
most of the society doesnt operate in the way that you described.
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Sadly, this is a better comparison than you probably intended, because access to school lunch is still not universal in the US.
If a child cannot pay, there are some districts that serve cheaper alternative meals that don't meet the normal lunch standards, some that shame children by giving them hand stamps, and even some that will literally dump their tray in the trash.