Comment by kaibee
4 years ago
> It is not socially efficient to spend massive amounts of resources accommodating a small number of people with allergies.
It is also not socially efficient to have a society where you have to worry about if your particular issue will be "efficient" enough for other people to care about. That basically sounds like a very low-trust society. And the economic consequences of having a low-trust society are so much worse.
Federal laws mandating absurdly costly subsidies of very small minorities is not what "high-trust society" means.
You're right in one sense - living in a low-trust society is very socially inefficient. I just don't think you have a working model of why we're becoming low-trust. It certainly has nothing to do with accommodating rare allergies.