So the system identifies apparent losers. And a good number of them lost their jobs during the recession. That alone is unjust. But what’s worse is that systems like Cataphora’s receive minimal feedback data. Someone identified as a loser, and subsequently fired, may have found another job and generated a fistful of patents. That data usually isn’t collected. The system has no inkling that it got one person, or even a thousand people, entirely wrong.
