I don’t remember exactly what I imagined, but it was something like this:
Alice: I can’t believe it! They chose that other guy for the job even though I have 6 more years of experience than him. It is so unfair… The only reason they picked him was because he went to the same school as the boss.
Bob: Well, life isn’t fair sometimes. Just suck it up, work on your resume, and give the next interview your best shot.
Actually, I’d say that it could be a case where justice can assert itself… the boss is, barring unusual circumstances, going to lose out on a skilled worker and that could impact his business.
(I mean, presumably the overly high cost of achieving fairness in that case would be passing a law telling employers how to make hiring decisions… but that idiot of a boss would benefit from such a law if the heuristics in it were good; now he’s free to shoot himself in the foot!)
Bob is telling Alice that life isn’t fair. Bob is Alice’s friend; he is not the boss. Bob seems like he has Alice’s interests in mind, since it is unlikely that Alice “doing something about it” would be worth it (such as confronting the boss, suing the company, picketing on the street outside the building, etc...). She is probably better off just continuing her job search. This is independent of whether or not Alice’s decision is best for society as a whole.
I don’t remember exactly what I imagined, but it was something like this:
Actually, I’d say that it could be a case where justice can assert itself… the boss is, barring unusual circumstances, going to lose out on a skilled worker and that could impact his business.
(I mean, presumably the overly high cost of achieving fairness in that case would be passing a law telling employers how to make hiring decisions… but that idiot of a boss would benefit from such a law if the heuristics in it were good; now he’s free to shoot himself in the foot!)
Bob is telling Alice that life isn’t fair. Bob is Alice’s friend; he is not the boss. Bob seems like he has Alice’s interests in mind, since it is unlikely that Alice “doing something about it” would be worth it (such as confronting the boss, suing the company, picketing on the street outside the building, etc...). She is probably better off just continuing her job search. This is independent of whether or not Alice’s decision is best for society as a whole.
Oh, that makes sense.