It's not the wealthy, it's people that are willing to pay. This is pretty basic segmentation. You can pay with your time or money. Kind of like ad free listening/watching.
What's up with news media reporting these days?
What's up with news media reporting these days?
But that's very far from how the actual world works. In reality, some people make very little while having little to start with, some make lots of money, even when they have little to start with, and others might make lots of money while also being born into lots of money.
To look at the system and ask "why are people complaining? It's the same price for everyone." ignores that is actually has a different cost for everyone, regardless of what the price might be. And that perspective is what pushes society in a direction where many are forced to pay with their time, while the few who found their way to large incomes/born with large bank accounts, can pay with money, essentially establishing a class tier.
Of course it's ok to charge for more services but there's a limit until your whole society is divided into an underclass and an overclass sharing the same spaces, the same rides in a theme park, the same social contexts and can see the divide. That generates social unsatisfaction, people have an inherent sense of fairness (and many animals as well) which can create social tension, boil that to the limit and you have the violence and crime you see in the USA but not in many other developed countries.
The statement about what the US does is the right thing because it's one of the richest countries on Earth is ignorant, or simply naïve. Also, a comical clichê of Americans worldview.
I think you should be able to query it for comprehension. I wrote it from your perspective to get you started.
I tried it out with a conversation and it was able to have a very reasonable discussion about the subject. Should be easier than having to wait for my reply.
If a medicine costs one million, you probably will agree it's only for the wealthy? Now, it's just a question of the price limit you assign to "reserved to the wealthy", that's all. You may have a different threshold here, but I find it hard denying there is a threshold.
What you are writing in your previous answers makes little sense, it almost sound alike random words. I won't answer if the next reply doesn't make just a little sense, it feels too much like trolling on your part.
Yes, it's just the free market, once again highlighting the blossoming wealth divide. There are few ways this doesn't end in rebellion.
You get enough desperate people, feeling like they don't stand a chance to get XXX, you got a rebellion.
But in this case (wealthy people paying to cut the line at the airport, ski resorts, and Disney world), I don't think anyone will feel desperate due to the circumstances, even if they think don't stand a chance at getting wealthy enough to benefit. It may make them resentful, but that's all.
I'm mentioning this because the general tone of the article and the comments was that there are many examples of this trend toward less equality and in my eyes it is very true, we are going toward a society where the gap between poor and rich becomes bigger and bigger. And this is going like this since 50 years at least...
Generally speaking (however, not absolutely true), wealthy individuals typically have a larger amount of disposable income to potentially allocate to this expense.
It is not unreasonable to conclude that such a service might be more likely to be used in practice by wealthier people.
But why even argue about this, the people that FLY are either wealthy or have a company that is paying for the flight.
Whether the person is individually wealthy or connected to a profitable company what is the effective difference? The person is experiencing the benefits of wealth; the person is wealthy. It is not a permanent state and wealth/luck change.
> Of course, businesses have long segmented customers
The article's argument is that:
- This kind of segmentation is more widespread and automated than it was previously.
- It's appearing in areas it wasn't in before (e.g. Disney World).
- It's extending to public arenas like vaccine queues, access to public lands, and TSA queues.
This isn’t exactly news.
Yes, this is how it worked.
Remember that the fastpass system was completely opaque, you put in your tickets in the fastpass machine, and it gave you a fastpass ticket and timeslot. Everyone with normal tickets were told they could only have one fastpass at a time, so if you put your ticket in again, or into another fastpass machine, you'd get denied.
But they knew the ticket numbers of people staying in the right rooms, so they could have the system work differently for them, and hand out as many fastpasses as they liked. And the people staying in those rooms generally didn't blab about all their perks.
And the general public was used to a small trickle of people passing them in the fastpass lane, the number of rooms that had more fastpasses than normal was limited, so regular visitors would pretty much never figure out that certain guests pretty much always used the fastpass lanes.
There was a lot more hidden perks for people who shelled out for suites.