And if they had the luxury of time, they might have been able to realise that. But they didnt have the luxury of time, and they didn’t have enough time to organise an orderly auction either.
Its all about what the default is. In an emergency, you cant hand craft a perfect solution. We are the descendants of people who have survived a lot of emergencies, so we default to things like “promote the group over yourself”, ie.”don’t guage” and “fertility counts more than accumulated wealth”, ie. “women and children first”.
The society outside of Titanic wasn’t in a dire need to be repopulated by the survivors from the ship.
And if they had the luxury of time, they might have been able to realise that. But they didnt have the luxury of time, and they didn’t have enough time to organise an orderly auction either.
Its all about what the default is. In an emergency, you cant hand craft a perfect solution. We are the descendants of people who have survived a lot of emergencies, so we default to things like “promote the group over yourself”, ie.”don’t guage” and “fertility counts more than accumulated wealth”, ie. “women and children first”.
Because, in general, they work.