You mean, it's been implemented in such a way that no politician can be blamed when things inevitably go wrong due to what this really is: savings on the budget

You mean, it's been implemented in such a way that no politician can be blamed when things inevitably go wrong due to what this really is: savings on the budget of one organization, pushing the costs somewhere else as opposed to actually improving society/economy. I've always wondered this about the many algorithms that keep getting used. They're being kept out of democratic decision making. It's always a committee somewhere in the executive that decides on the algorithm, not parliament, or any kind of elected board. They are implemented as a cost control.