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To me, this looks like a fantastic idea, and something that could be really useful in a niche, but I think it's going to fly over the head of a lot of folk because it's fairly obviously targeted at highly mobile, maybe HNWI's who do a lot of travel - it's not going to be useful for "most" people.

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Similar vibes to lawmakers that have public hearings with airline execs and talk about air travel issues as if it's an issue American voters frequently think about.

Most Americans travel 0-2 times per year. About half don't fly at all.

It's also like the news always summarizing the stock market even though ~40% of Americans hold no stock at all, even indirectly through mutual funds or retirement accounts[1].

1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...

All taxpayers are exposed to the stock market via taxpayer funded defined benefit pension plans and retiree healthcare plans. Stock market goes down, taxes go up (and/or quantity/quality of government services goes down).

Of course, that can happen anyway due to a relatively rapid decrease in the purchasing power of the currency.

16% of six-figure earners is the really shocking part here. They make 100k and don’t have a 401k or IRA? What?! How?!

I could see blue collar workers making up that segment, especially if they are self-employed.

A young plumber or electrician who doesn't know the value of compounding interest.

Eh, the news dealing with issues that affect 60% of people seems pretty reasonable to me?

I also don't really think it's particularly helpful to categorise people in this way - if we were talking about an immutable characteristic, like if the news spent half of the time talking about the struggles of being 7ft tall even though basically no-one is 7ft tall, that would be a bit odd.

But buying shares is a generally available thing.

In the live-aboard sailboat cruising niche we have Sea People https://seapeopleapp.com which has a similar basic value prop but many features specifically for that lifestyle.

There are social networks for farmers to find love, why not some socials for the 1%-ers?

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