One reason that the national conversation on vaccine availability isn't necessarily reflective of ground truth is that we've set up an auction where you pay not with money but with PMC-level brainsweat.
People who participate in national conversation have a lot of that to spend.
People who participate in national conversation have a lot of that to spend.
(This is subtly different from the PMC's diagnosis of the issue. The language of power can say what it will about root causes, but one side effect of being the language of power is that it is very, very, very good at getting what it wants out of bureaucratic processes.)
Imagine if there were figurative passwords being passed out right now to get a vaccine, and a great debate on whether publishing the passwords was justice-maximizing, conducted largely by people who professionally specialize in guessing passwords of complex systems.
Skilled password guessers might report "Things are going amazingly! I got the vaccine for trivial effort; easier than something I do every Tuesday!" while much of the population might say "Things are going terribly! I asked one person and got told No, so that's a No for me."
I'll note: there are both figurative and literal passwords, and there is an underground economy in both of them, sometimes denominated in social capital and sometimes denominated in money.
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