This is exactly right. My girlfriend was extremely frustrated when WestJet (Canadian) introduced "first class". For a long long time they had gotten on just fin

This is exactly right. My girlfriend was extremely frustrated when WestJet (Canadian) introduced "first class". For a long long time they had gotten on just fine with a single kind of seat for every passenger. The same tendency towards "privileging" can be seen in the constant push for two tier health care and two tier education systems (here Alberta is a bulwark, compared to Quebec). Anyway, great post. I'd love for this kind of analysis to reach the mainstream.