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by Someone 5307 days ago
Perceived fairness is very hard to quantify objectively. Is it fair if there are queues for people buying less than X items? If there are queues for people not paying cash? For frequent flyers? That you, by sheer misfortune, end up in the slow queue three times in a row? Should pensioners wait for people having work to do? Should fit people make room for the elderly? To what extent? Etc.

Instead, I think you should do the math; it will teach you that the probability that a given queue is slow is smaller than the probability that, given a person in a queue, that person is in a slow queue.

So, you spend more time in slow queues than in fast ones. Once you know that, train yourself to accept it.