Calculated misery: why airlines want you to be uncomfortable
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Laws have consequences, but without consumer protection laws, the consumers are be walked over by the corporations every time, everywhere.
>“Here’s the thing: in order for fees to work, there needs be something worth paying to avoid. That necessitates, at some level, a strategy that can be described as “calculated misery.” Basic service, without fees, must be sufficiently degraded in order to make people want to pay to escape it,” Wu writes. “And that’s where the suffering begins.”
>Wu explains that under calculated misery, services or features that were once expected (think of leg room) are made worsened (leg room is reduced as rows are moved closer together). Want a little more leg room? You’ll likely need to upgrade your airfare to business or first class or even ordinary coach seats with added leg room.
Business in a nutshell.
They already do sometimes, when they have the flight attendants pimp their credit cards.
Communist air travel have been tried, so it's not like you can pass your random dreams as it.
But it’s crazy that you’re complaining about such a low price that so many more people can travel more freely that they’re willing to be uncomfortable to save money when currently private ownership is making us uncomfortable during the traveling and before traveling as well.
When capitalists limit the supply that increases prices and increases profits. When socialist lower prices that increases the supply and decreases of prices because there’s no need for profit.
Failing that - regulation.
' Nothing legal implied