I feel like this app has the right idea, but to live up to its full potential it needs to also implement explanations.
For example, you'd select Asian, it would show you that he has to pay more because of privilege and then in a side note explain: strict parents placing high priority on good school performance, usually going for STEM instead of lib-arts major in college, focus on real jobs instead of "rapper" career, have a high drive for studying even to the exclusion of friends and hobbies etc
Then you'd input black and get their sob story but also an explanation: Low support by parents for their school work, bad learning environment when majory of the public school is black and any serious attempt to learn is seen as "ole cracka ass uncle tom", low future time horizont, impulsiveness, no interest in STEM fields
Then you'd add that that black person is a woman and you'd get an addendum: low preference for STEM degrees, high disregard for hard physical labor work, high preference for less time invested in work even as a doctor etc
I really feel like this app might be a good opportunity for people learn more about these kinds of privileges and each other. Maybe some crime statistics should be included too
For example, you'd select Asian, it would show you that he has to pay more because of privilege and then in a side note explain: strict parents placing high priority on good school performance, usually going for STEM instead of lib-arts major in college, focus on real jobs instead of "rapper" career, have a high drive for studying even to the exclusion of friends and hobbies etc
Then you'd input black and get their sob story but also an explanation: Low support by parents for their school work, bad learning environment when majory of the public school is black and any serious attempt to learn is seen as "ole cracka ass uncle tom", low future time horizont, impulsiveness, no interest in STEM fields
Then you'd add that that black person is a woman and you'd get an addendum: low preference for STEM degrees, high disregard for hard physical labor work, high preference for less time invested in work even as a doctor etc
I really feel like this app might be a good opportunity for people learn more about these kinds of privileges and each other. Maybe some crime statistics should be included too