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A "life event" sounds something like a death or major illness of a loved one, an unexpected loss of financial support, a health problem, car accident, or some o
by mitthrowaway2 4y ago
A "life event" sounds something like a death or major illness of a loved one, an unexpected loss of financial support, a health problem, car accident, or some other third-party issue external to one's schoolwork. Penalizing these people doesn't filter for those who can cope; it sorts for those whose "life events" happen to occur after they graduate.
- cryptonym 4y agoAgree. It sounds like that joke where HR randomly put half of applications to the bin because they don't want to hire the unlucky ones.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoIt all makes more sense if you stop looking at it as a "system" and just look at how it empirically works. Nobody is optimizing for anything, not even their own self-interest. We're just doing what we're doing because that's what we do.