MEME REFERENCE
sinking skeleton
Use to compare a visible concern receiving attention with another neglected problem and an even older issue abandoned so long it has become a skeleton.
- What it expresses
- Attention is distributed unfairly across problems at different depths of neglect.
- Example
- A company celebrates a new logo while its slow app struggles and its years-old accessibility defects remain untouched; label the three levels accordingly.
- When not to use it
- The organization addresses all three problems in proportion to urgency; the hierarchy of neglect would be false.