Indeed depending on just how angry the losers in the resource allocation game get, they can easily transform from group that was easily co-opted with carrots into one that has to be actively repressed with sticks.
According to the report of the Arab Working Group on Media Monitoring, in 2009, the allocation of airtime was unfair and the voice of the opponents to the regime was marginalized.
Jackie Schneider, chair of a parents group in the London borough of Merton, suggests that schools should make arrangements so that payments or the allocation of free meals should be in private.