Aydın Tiryaki (2026)

Introduction In “The Great Reckoning” project, social justice is built upon the state’s delivery of its most fundamental duties: education and healthcare. When a citizen, despite paying taxes, cannot receive these services from the state at an adequate level and is forced to turn to the private sector, it constitutes a “Public Service Deficit” (a failure of the state to fulfill its commitment). This article explains how mandatory private sector expenditures and merit gaps in education are integrated into the social balance score.

1. Public Service Deficit and the Forced Choice Equilibrium

In healthcare and K-12 education, citizens who turn to the private sector due to disruptions in public services are defined as “Natural Creditors” of the system.

• The Double-Cost Burden: An individual who purchases private services due to long appointment queues in public hospitals or quality concerns in state schools has essentially been charged twice—once through taxes and once through direct payment.
• Necessity vs. Luxury Filter: The system analyzes data such as regional school performance, hospital capacity, and income-to-spending ratios to determine if the private sector choice was a “status symbol” or a “necessity due to service deficiency.” Forced choices are recorded as a credit in the individual’s disadvantage score.

2. Academic Justice and the “Merit Gap”

In higher education, the substitution of financial power for academic achievement (test scores) is one of the most sensitive areas of restoration in the system.

• The Score Delta (Threshold Difference): The gap between the high score required to enter a public university and the lower score sufficient for a paid position in a private university is defined as the “Merit Gap.”
• Capital Advantage: Those who become professionals by bypassing merit barriers through financial power start with a systemic “advantage” (debt). Conversely, the “labor intensity” of a student who achieves a high score under the most challenging conditions is added as a significant plus to their credit ledger.

3. Success Neutrality and the Protection of Scholarships

The system’s most fundamental red line is to avoid punishing earned success.

• Merit-Based Scholarships: Scholarships obtained entirely through academic achievement are not viewed as an “advantage” or a “debt” in the social balance account. These achievements are paths opened by the individual’s own effort and remain in the system’s “sacrosanct” domain.
• The Character Coefficient: The success of a young person from a limited-income background at a state university does not neutralize their “creditor” status; rather, it reinforces their social value and priority.

4. Restoration and Balancing Methodology

• The Sacrifice Coefficient: The “sacrifice” of middle- and low-income families who spend a large portion of their income on their children’s education or their family’s health is recorded as a credit with the highest multiplier.
• Addressing Merit Loss: Every instance where wealth trumps merit is “pruned” during the 20-year restoration process. In public tenders and state positions, a systematic priority is defined for those with “earned merit” (those with high labor intensity/scores).

Conclusion “The Great Reckoning” redefines education and healthcare not as commercial commodities, but as birthrights for every citizen. This model will use the mathematical justice of the 100-base system to repair the distorted order where those with money advance despite low scores, while those without cannot access services. With this model, merit will no longer stay in the shadow of capital; the state’s “service debt” to every citizen will be paid in full detail.

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A Note on Methods and Tools: All observations, ideas, and solution proposals in this study are the author’s own. AI was utilized as an information source for researching and compiling relevant topics strictly based on the author’s inquiries, requests, and directions; additionally, it provided writing assistance during the drafting process. (The research-based compilation and English writing process of this text were supported by AI as a specialized assistant.)