Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715
Accomodation Nation
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/elite-universit...
For me to buy this moral panic I need to see more compelling evidence. Can we see the students that clearly are getting undeserved accommodations? That is the actual thing people are worried about. But zero of the articles whinging about this can point to data here.
Could it be, I dunno, that rich students are vastly more likely to have access to the medical system that can identify and document various things like ADHD?
Theres a theory... and Im not saying I agree or disagree ... that white people, either genetically or culturally, have an inherent natural social conscience which creates high trust societies which is reflected in countries and neighborhoods that they create. Its just something they do naturally like a labrador likes to swim.
So according to the theory there will be an inverse correlation between high trust society and the presence of white people.
I dont know of its true or not, but, world wide, all people want to live in predominantly white founded neighborhoods and countries and never the inverse.
Not to take away from the benefits of other races but naturally creating high trust societies could potentially be one value that white people add to the world.
As this great social experiment of America continues we will see how powerful the influence of race/culture plays on high trust institutions.
https://stanfordreview.org/content/images/size/w1200/2024/02...
How do you explain Singapore? South Korea? Japan?
You have found three outliers out of 193 countries.
It still really doesn't disprove the theory that 100% of white western civilization founded countries have people trying to immigrate to them whereas outside of a tiny handful the rest of the countries have zero immigration problems.
All of these countries need to be studied for what behaviors and cultures create high trust first world style societies.
Do the republics in the Caucasus region (and Russia) count in this calculation or not?
Additionally, I wouldn't consider UK to be "high trust" these days either. I don't blame that on immigration, but economic contraction.
I can't tell if you're serious or just saber rattling. I know better than to engage with this type of stuff on Reddit, but I like to think people in the HN space are more methodical than this.
I think all races are ethnocentric as evidenced by entire neighborhoods being one race or another.
Humans are tribal by nature.
You think the far right is super duper dishonest when the reality is all fanatics are super duper dishonest.
Only as much as you encourage them to be.
> I think all races are ethnocentric as evidenced by entire neighborhoods being one race or another.
This is a depressing model of the world, and does not match my lived experience.
The biggest predictor of the zip code you live in is the zip code you were born in. And when that prediction fails significantly, it’s mostly due to mass migrations that have been deeply political.
Can’t believe we’re still in the “separate but equal” phase in the evolution of human society, especially given the amount of suffering it has caused.
(and I know your theory is bullshit because I'm Romanian...)
I think people want to move to European derived places because of a) the positive long terms side effects of a society being high trust and b) a greater openness to outsiders among high trust societies, compared to e.g. East Asians, probably due to Christianity being a universalist religion. Like Japan is as nice if not nicer than most European derived places in terms of high trust-ness, but historically they haven’t really allowed people outside their ethnic sphere to move there in large numbers.
Minus the whole crusades and inquisition thing.
Crusades and inquisition are perfectly compatible with that.
I’m an atheist by the way, I know once you express some position everyone tends to assume you have whatever standard package includes that position. I also don’t think this universalism has been a good thing long term. It united Europeans too quickly and destroyed their various separate identities while replacing it with something that is essentially a blender (in the sharp blades destroying things connotation, not the delicious fruit smoothie creation connotation).
It must be so convenient to have one overarching theory to explain all of the complex geopolitical and socioeconomic phenomena in the world, and it just so happens to be something that’s easily observable!
God I would love to have a beer with someone like you for once, and just have an honest conversation without you feeling pressured to lie about what you really think. It would be so interesting to me. Similarly for flat earthers.
I am totally fine with people avoiding expensive or bad meal plan. The fact that you have to pay for an expensive or bad meal plan should be the scandal, not the fact that students avoid it.
And I am even fine with accommodation from class participation. Too much of it is activity for points only which wastes everybody's time.
Students are “gaming the system” by getting access to buildings in specific locations (to lower their campus commute times) or by forcing single occupancy for themselves in 2+ occupancy dorms (which then creates a housing crunch elsewhere as you might end up with a triple or a quad elsewhere to compensate for it).
This all seems to stem from one demographics greed or another. Our parents generation and suppressing housing builds. The corporations using monopolies of dating applications which at this point seem to be suppressing relationship formulation more than increasing it. The political classes using tariffs for unclear purposes to shrink our economy.
https://www.equimundo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/State-o...
I see the same sentiment from his comment on young people everywhere in the developed west US, Canda, EU, Australia, etc.
/s, a little bit. I find all of this lacking analytical or quantitative rigor and it’s bringing racists and bigots with preconceived worldviews out from their hiding spaces (not necessarily you, but definitely the elsewhere in this thread).
Anyway, we should all bake bread for our neighbors a bit more and make the world a nicer place to live in.
Ok, and which means...
> 50% of Americans now see homeownership as out of reach
What lol. It makes no sense. The correlation between a country's GDP and home ownership rate is the opposite of what you're implying here. Usually in poorer countries more percentage of population own their own houses.
> Studies keep cropping up stating at 30-40% of young Americans will never marry
And this makes even less sense. Third-world is where new babies come from right now.
You literally just described first-world problems.
Institutions are always permitted to act in the own self-interest, but not individuals. Always just blame the little people.
I am back in the US. And it is not looking good. Don't put all the eggs in one basket.
This crap will only stop when there is: 1. A ton of new housing for all people. 2. Treat everyone the same. Same amount of test time etc.
Otherwise, our society is just a race to see who can claim the most special 'privilege' via some form of 'issue' or 'need'.
It would be great to see detailed demographic breakdowns of exactly who's making these heavy special-privilege claims, as the details may surprise a variety of commentators on this forum. Though I don't think Gary has access to that data.
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Doesn't the current president of the U.S. and indeed his posse sorta of espouse this when you look at their backgrounds? This feels like a bigger cultural issue around what the advantaged folks have been doing all along
CodingJeebus•7h ago
Isn’t the mandatory meal plan also a game by the university? A really frustrating trend I’ve seen more companies do nowadays is to tack on mandatory charges for crap that I don’t need or want, and it’s happening everywhere.
If declaring a disability is what it takes to get out of a compulsory meal charge, then it’s worth examining why the school feels compelled to make the meal plan mandatory in the first place.
It’s not just students or consumers playing a game, companies (or universities in this case) are playing one too, and it’s called: how to get as much money out of our customers as possible.
lux-lux-lux•4h ago
ameliaquining•3h ago
CodingJeebus•29m ago
There's an entire misalignment of economic incentives in that world that he just completely glosses over in favor of "third-worldification".
UncleMeat•1h ago
FireBeyond•2h ago
So we're left with paying her credit card to buy groceries and a largely unused meal plan.
> it’s worth examining why the school feels compelled to make the meal plan mandatory in the first place.
Well, that's often because Aramark and Chartwells (Compass) require that in their contracts. My partner is the Accounting Manager for another university in our state and that's mandated in their contract (along with other clauses like "any event on campus must be offered to us for catering first, and we will either cater it or decline, and only then can you use another caterer").
There can be debates on why that is allowed in the negotiation, though.
Beijinger•1h ago
Quite a while ago, but yes.
1. There are cheaper options
2. There are healthier options
3. No offense, but American food is often low quality.
Man. If I think of Fudan University food, then I want to cry. So good.