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-14 points

You want a good flight experience? No problem.

You want a good flight experience that is also cheap? No sir.

The airlines just cater to the market, if people were able and willing to pay double, things would be vastly better.

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42 points

If people could pay double, things would cost double. Quality likely wouldn’t change.

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Source for this hypothesis?

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17 points

It’s called Free Market Capitalism. If the market can bear double the cost, the prices will rise to meet the level the market can bear.

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How long have you been alive? If you’ve been an adult for ten or more years and haven’t noticed the degradation in quality of services, I don’t know what to tell you.

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5 points

Every streaming service.

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Things would not get better, they’d just charge more to increase profit margins. Haven’t you ever lived under Capitalism before?

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6 points

People already pay double, and more, for business and first class. They get a much better experience than economy fliers. The problem with flying economy is that it’s a race for the cheapest ticket, so they’ll keep cutting service and comfort as long as people still buy tickets.

If people stopped buying economy tickets because the experience isn’t acceptable, then it would improve.

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2 points

Exactly.

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6 points

The glory days of air travel were before deregulation and they were much more expensive. Now they are cheap and as pleasurable as going on a bus. Actually prices have been going up significantly recently but the shitty conditions remain.

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