Concentrated burdens

Ask where the costs land. Benefits often spread thinly across everyone while the price is paid repeatedly by one small, identifiable group. Averaging divides that concentrated cost across the whole population and makes it vanish.

Ask where the costs land. Benefits often spread thinly across everyone while the price is paid repeatedly by one small, identifiable group. Averaging divides that concentrated cost across the whole population and makes it vanish.

Example

Interactive exercises save your 1,000 sighted students a few minutes each. The cost lands entirely on the 12 screen reader users, who lose the course. Spread across 1,012 people the burden looks tiny; for those 12 it is total.