Waiting-line rationing advantages people whose time is cheap and obligations few.

Evidence

While resource limitations may be unalterable in the very short run, they are not necessarily immutable. They derive from allocation decisions that consider it acceptable to impose costs on waiting clients. Costs will not be imposed upon clients equally. Long lines processed on a first-come, firstserved basis relatively benefit people who can afford to wait, people whose time is not particularly valuable to them, or people who do not have other obligations. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 695

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how discretion distributes costs unequally along class lines even under formally neutral rules. — connects to: Combating time poverty requires time itself, which humans lack — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1893; Waiting time is a cost of service extracted almost entirely from clients — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 657; First-come, first-served queues ration service toward those whose time is cheap. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• First-come, first-served queues ration service toward those whose time is cheap. #corroborates (1.00)
• Scheduling systems that routinize agency convenience shift service costs onto the least organized clients. #expands (0.85) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 697