Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future
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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.
There's an entire misalignment of economic incentives in that world that he just completely glosses over in favor of "third-worldification".
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.
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.
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.
This is ahistorical nonsense. You’re really saying the country of “Manifest Destiny” had no attitude of “Fuck you, I got mine” because they were deeply religious Christians?
Not to mention “Christian” has been bastardized so hard that I find it hard to imagine there’s really much overlap between what a “Christian” today believes vs what they believed in 1776. Let’s take, for example, their recorded views on the “personhood” of indigenous peoples (and Africans!) and whether they were capable of being saved by Christ. Never mind the absolute multitude of sects that existed then but don’t exist now and vice versa.
Your perspective is one of myth-building and religious supremacy, which is well-refuted by the significant evidence in the form of history books as well as primary sources.
> Tough the may have traded with natives
How benevolent.
You should really read about what it actually means to perform a genocide on indigenous peoples. The ugly side. Read the diary of Thomas Thistlewood, a self-proclaimed Christian. Let me know how you feel about the passage where he forced an enslaved person to defecate into another enslaved person’s mouth.
Doesn't matter who founded which thing in the distant past, what matters is who is currently running the system and making the rules. If you check the Epstein files, the self anointed people pulling the strings are not very Christian at all, but contempt to them.
to what fault, slavery?
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.
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
The change I feel is that nobody even cares to be honorable any longer. There is no benefit, even culturally. As the article says, you’d have to be stupid not to do it. I’ve always tried to be honest idk
But laws don’t matter anymore. There is no shaming bad actors. It’s all blatantly out there and no consequences have been doled out so here we are.
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...
I am back in the US. And it is not looking good. Don't put all the eggs in one basket.
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).
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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.
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?