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Your scenario happens with people that either don't know or don't care. They will write crappy queries with any tool.
You are talking about listening to Democrat opinions.
Very very different thing.
I am quite happy to be friends with people with different political opinions or who vote for another party.
I am also happy to know who is spouting racist, sexist or crazy drivel. This allows me personally to avoid them.
Others may choose to engage with the extremists I choose not to waste my time. This is a matter for individual free will.
NB once again listening to Democrat/republican media when you are voting for the other party is just normal and has nothing to do with choosing not to associate with e.g Klansman.
+I think for example that gender and sexuality are not choices and that I should not tell other people how to live their lives.
That said I've found cover letters to be pretty much a waste of my time so far.
The original situation is horrible. No one should ever be put into it. There is little point answering the question - it has no good outcomes. Instead we need to think about how to prevent it happening. I suggest that we should strive to build societies where it does not happen. I offered a concrete suggestion for how an individual can help themselves and another for how they can try to help everyone.
In terms of the USA - Lobbying by the public has slowed attempts to decrease healthcare provision in the USA. People like you that care and live there need to continue pushing.
Not everyone has the luxury of being able to move countries+. Which is why we should all vote and lobby for better welfare systems - so that we and our loved ones never have to take these types of decisions.
Edit + It usually takes marketable skills that allow a well paid job such that welfare doesn't seem like a priority.
Edit Would down voters care to chip in with a comment? Drive bys don't really lead to good discussion.
People want it because it is faster to count.
As is the variable effects of shaking - can increase or decrease packing fraction and order depending on magnitude.
In addition ordering in packings of rectangular prisms extend up to 8 particle lengths from the side walls - and are variable with time and history. This experiment's results could be partly due to edge effects.
Presumably any potential buyer has access to the ability to make your life very short and painful...
Alternatively you were brought in by management to make cost cutting recommendations - and your solution wasn't cheap enough.
Alternatively the company accounted for the enormous risk of the project succeeding but actually being worse than what they had in place.
You really don't know the politics of this.
Edit: Another alternative is that your plan would have resulted in sufficient job losses that the company was worried that it would demotivate other employees and damage the company more than the cost savings.