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I strongly despise people like that. If you add up lost time for all other passengers and compare that to won time for her and her family (less time waiting at
by sdoering 7y ago
I strongly despise people like that. If you add up lost time for all other passengers and compare that to won time for her and her family (less time waiting at the baggage claim) this ends up massively weighted against her behavior. non the less her behavior is actually rational and optimal from a standpoint of game theory. At least under current conditions (bag size not checked and enforced up front). This is in my books a classic example of 'tragedy of the commons'.
As long as egoistic behavior is the optimal strategy we will not see a significant change in behavior.
It can only be changed by changing the surrounding rules and conditions.
- senordevnyc 7y agoSo you strongly despise someone for being a rational actor within a broken system?
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoMy guess is that his dislike stems from the fact that this lady only made things better for herself and her family, and not GP, or anyone else on the flight. If everyone can't do it (bringing more luggage than will fit above you) then doing that seem like you're doing it because you're better than everyone else, which is offensive to most people for good reason. If her whole family had flown first class, that'd be a different story. (They'd probably still be annoyed at the family for basically cancelling out some of the perks of paying extra for flights, though.)
- MauranKilom 7y agoSociety doesn't operate only on rationality... https://xkcd.com/1499/ https://xkcd.com/1499/