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affordable air travel network is a capability the business world needs to operate our economy Is it? Why? Frequent air travel is super recent.
by ced 7y ago
affordable air travel network is a capability the business world needs to operate our economy
Is it? Why? Frequent air travel is super recent.
- dahfizz 7y agoThe modern economy is "super recent". So are computers and solar cells. Just because something is new doesn't make it easily dispensable.
- kumoflow 7y agoInternet is even more recent, does it make even less necessary to operate out economy?
- cma 7y agoNot sure it's what you meant, but the internet does make air travel less necessary to operate the economy.
- kumoflow 7y agoI was making the point that just because something is 'recent' doesn't mean it isn't necessary and we can go without because 20-50-100 years ago it wasn't needed. The world changes. I travel all over the world for business. Contracts that I couldn't do without that travel. Just because 50 years ago I wouldn't be able to do it, doesn't mean it isn't necessary now. (Same as internet, just because 50 years ago you didn't need, or have, the internet, doesn't mean nowadays is an integral part of business)
- black_puppydog 7y agowell they need it to operate the economy in the way that it has been operated as of late. which is to say: maybe if we take that away from them, we could solve two problems at once? Pollution from air travel, and all the societal problems that a globalized economy without meaningfully global regulation brings?
- sokoloff 7y agoIf it’s the case that international air travel makes companies more competitive, all you’ll really be able to do is to further stratify the winners from the rest of the pack by sharply increasing the cost of air travel.