I guess the whole point of design or engineering for that matter is to get as close as possible to the bare minimum of essential complexity. Elegance comes to mind, if you are able to jump over several complexity traps.
I am wondering. If there would be a real basic income for all citizens. Wouldn't that simply lead to an increase in overall prices, so nothing would be gained?
Companies have to help people at least to the extend that they are wiling to give them money. But of course the degrees to which companies actually help people or just satisfy a luxury need differs.
I see your craving for helping people directly and not through the intermediary of a company. In my case I want to start a company or join a company that actually helps people because I feel the leverage that a company has to help people is a lot bigger. Nevertheless , the work of doctors is of course essential.
Are you weighing the life of a 85 year old person against that of a pre-teen girl? Why should the life of the old person be less valuable? I don't accept the argument of an average maximum life-expactancy. That is pure, delayed statistics. What if the old person would have lived on a happy life for 25 more years, dying naturally at the age of 110? Weighing up lives against each other puts you in a difficult ethical position.
A similar case was subject to a discussion by the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany. This was in response to a law that in the aftermath of 9/11 granted the military rights to shoot an airplane that got hijacked in order to protect the lives of ohers. The law was declared to vioalte the constitutional right for human dignity (Article 1 of the German Constitution) [1], expressing that all lifes are to be treated as being equal.
The Danmark Statistik office in Copenhagen is 250m away from the Chinese Visa Application Service Center, just for context.
I don't see why the Chinese employee had to open the package in order to figure out it was not meant for them. When the package was adressed for someone else isn't that quite obvious when you have a first look at the package?
I guess this would still work if you can just say: give me a hotel in the prices range of... with a good rating. Surely the result wont be as good as manually digging out not yet discovered great hotels, but it might still be satisfactory