Read the post again. Take it a little less literally. Do you really thing that I meant that people should literally walk instead of flying? I was saying that the OP's description of the film/TV industry as a "luxury" and that people should "get outside" was just as ridiculous as my description of Facebook or air travel. This is a tech forum. I was illustrating the point by re-telling the narrative in terms more understood to this crowd, with the hope that doing so would create some empathy in the minds of readers. But of course this is HN where metaphor is too complex a concept.

For the Sheldon out there: When you see someone equate two wildly different things, such as FLYING and WALKING, that is code for not literal and you should examine the wording in context. There is probably another meaning, one often opposite to that literally described by the text. And if you don't understand what I mean by "Sheldons" then I give up.

Wow, that was too much typing. It is almost like metaphor allow us to express complex ideas with far fewer words than literal description of the facts. I wonder if anyone else has discovered this trick?