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I doubt Deloitte did this without direct guidance and approval from state governments. The unemployment system here in FL was also built to spec to be incredib

I doubt Deloitte did this without direct guidance and approval from state governments. The unemployment system here in FL was also built to spec to be incredibly hard to use and that was the goal of the administration. I have no love lost for consultancies, but if no government agents are penalized for this and they take the fall alone it will happen again with some other consultancy.

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jkaptur 2y ago
I recommend the book "Automating Inequality" by Virginia Eubanks for a deeper dive here.
- sitkack 2y ago
  https://virginia-eubanks.com/automating-inequality/ https://virginia-eubanks.com/automating-inequality/ > In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. Deeply researched and passionately written, Automating Inequality could not be more timely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avxm7JYjk8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avxm7JYjk8M
engineer_22 2y ago
More likely, they lacked incentive to get it right
- kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
  These states salivate at every opportunity to cut themselves off at the knees with tax cuts. They tend to receive a disproportionate amount of federal funding but that isn't enough to maintain high quality services and you get these sort of death panels meant to restrict spending so that the top earners can pretend they're going to trickle down their wealth. Tennessee is a tax haven state. They are the worst offenders at this.
  - engineer_22 2y ago
    Very cynical
khafra 2y ago
To some extent, the reason business consultancies get paid so much is to be the fall guys when what the client wanted to do all along turns out badly. However, they're still businesses. If the fall is big enough, or it starts happening reliably enough, they will stop volunteering for certain types of falls. We need to make "business practices that kill vulnerable people who they're supposed to be helping" a category of fall that is reliably unprofitable.

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jkaptur 2y ago

I recommend the book "Automating Inequality" by Virginia Eubanks for a deeper dive here.

sitkack 2y ago
https://virginia-eubanks.com/automating-inequality/ https://virginia-eubanks.com/automating-inequality/ > In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. Deeply researched and passionately written, Automating Inequality could not be more timely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avxm7JYjk8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avxm7JYjk8M

engineer_22 2y ago

More likely, they lacked incentive to get it right

kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
These states salivate at every opportunity to cut themselves off at the knees with tax cuts. They tend to receive a disproportionate amount of federal funding but that isn't enough to maintain high quality services and you get these sort of death panels meant to restrict spending so that the top earners can pretend they're going to trickle down their wealth. Tennessee is a tax haven state. They are the worst offenders at this.
- engineer_22 2y ago
  Very cynical

khafra 2y ago

To some extent, the reason business consultancies get paid so much is to be the fall guys when what the client wanted to do all along turns out badly. However, they're still businesses. If the fall is big enough, or it starts happening reliably enough, they will stop volunteering for certain types of falls. We need to make "business practices that kill vulnerable people who they're supposed to be helping" a category of fall that is reliably unprofitable.