Several weeks ago, I was watching a Vox video on Covid-19 vaccine distribution. The story was about how rich countries were first in line to get vaccines because they made individual deals with the pharmaceutical companies to invest in research, to guarantee they receive the first batch of vaccines. There was an organization formed for many countries to chip in, so the poor countries can also get vaccines. But the way it worked out is that rich countries both contributed to the organization and made deals with pharmaceuticals companies, since they have the money, so they still end up being first in line for vaccines.

The video ended by wondering why it didn’t work, but fall short to indicate that human behavior is the reason that the original plan didn’t work. When working with any human-generated data, we are required to look at how that data was generated. Sometimes, people approach the data from an objective approach and ignored the human factor. But for many years, humans have greed and desires. An there often isn’t a more deep explanation than, “I want that because I can”. People like to seek reason and wish there is an logical explanation, but we can more often approach from the angle that sometimes people do things for no reason.