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Yeah, and you can always tell someone's full financial position from little details like that. (eyeroll) So someone who got a benefit from the state that addre
by neilk 3y ago
Yeah, and you can always tell someone's full financial position from little details like that. (eyeroll)
So someone who got a benefit from the state that addresses a serious, well-proven injustice, and wasn't crawling on their knees and begging for it. Sounds like the system is working.
Even if your anecdote is real, and their use of an Audi indicated they were well able to pay full school fees, so what? We give such benefits to the parents because we want to target the child. Sometimes the parents might make different financial choices, obtain a car that's more than they need. (And you don't know how they got it, whether it's used, or whether they feel they need it to "keep up appearances" with others so peers, like you, don't judge them by their car.)
In any case that's why the benefit is delivered as reduced school fees. TLDR the children aren't the ones who bought the Audi.
- h4ch1 3y ago"little details": In a country where an Audi is a huge luxury, yeah you can tell enough. That also means they have the resources to compete fairly with their peers and choose not to by invoking their OBC class, which in all practicality has NO affect on their life. The point was a generation before had reaped the benefits of reservation and anything further was exploitation. That family was not treated, nor lived as an OBC. The system worked, its stoppage is overdue by at least 20 years.
- howinteresting 3y agoElite capture is a real phenomenon and I think one that affirmative action programs worldwide struggle to handle. It's worth acknowledging even if we ultimately decide the benefits outweigh the costs. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture