I. Poor houses and red flagging: The individualist responsibility becomes a burden for the poor, who are always accused of his laziness and responsibility, which led to him to this fate. The red flagging is the initial process where the poor come under the radar to catch ' potential frauds'. The inequality is reproduced among the poor and working class through cutting down the accessibility and delegitimizing their rights to welfare schemes ().
II. The theory of able and impotent: This division of poor into those who are rightful in claiming the social security and those who live upon eating the citizen's tax. Conveniently, it put forward a message of who is a citizen and who is legitimate or able poor. The basic logic behind this elitist division roots from the historical blame on poor liked a 'culture of poverty. The author explains these criteria or eligibility through automation and its consequences in chapter 2.
Algorithms, sympathy and discretion: the author talks about how algorithms play an important role in curtailing the basic social security plans available for an average U.S citizen through its impersonal, codified responses. Through algorithms, the agency which uses it has the accountability of welfare schemes and it also detects 'unwanted' payments and 'overspending outside by the individual and blocks it. This data collected, analysed and implemented by the automation is used by beurocrats, politicians and other agencies with high social, cultural and psychological consequences upon poor and working class
