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That's a great way to put themselves out of business. If they don't want to play a fair game, you can well be assured that people will stop using their products

That's a great way to put themselves out of business. If they don't want to play a fair game, you can well be assured that people will stop using their products as much as they could be.

moate 7y ago
If only that were the case. Airlines and Broadband companies are constantly getting terrible reviews because they offer such terrible quality customer service. But what the fuck are you gonna do, rig up your own ISP or charter a boat across the Atlantic? No, you're going to get reamed in the ass and keep living in the 21st century. These industries "fail" because they're designed to fail! Nobody wants to admit it, but you need a public option on this shit or else people will just keep being forced to publicly subsidize a select group of private enterprises over and over when shit goes tits up.
- a3n 7y ago
  > But what the fuck are you gonna do, rig up your own ISP or charter a boat across the Atlantic? No, you're going to get reamed in the ass and keep living in the 21st century. Or we can globally live within our means. It is apparently barely sustainable for people to be able to fly anywhere on a whim and a salary. If the globe being able to do this means that airlines must operate at constant arm's reach of bankruptcy and bailout, then we're living beyond our global means and society is ill-structured.
jariel 7y ago
"If they don't want to play a fair game," The government interfering existentially to shut down their business isn't quite 'fair game'. Put another way, the government could ban travel, in which case, the airlines could theoretically offer the flight, but the consumer would have to then cancel their ticket and pay a charge, or not get anything back. Point being the government interference could run both ways. So it's going to be a big problem clearing all of this up.
reaperducer 7y ago
That's a great way to put themselves out of business. If they don't want to play a fair game, you can well be assured that people will stop using their products as much as they could be. If there was real airline competition, sure. But there aren't a half dozen airlines flying between most cities. There are two, if you're lucky. Or one for the majority of city pairs in the United States.

That's a great way to put themselves out of business. If they don't want to play a fair game, you can well be assured that people will stop using their products as much as they could be.

moate 7y ago

If only that were the case. Airlines and Broadband companies are constantly getting terrible reviews because they offer such terrible quality customer service. But what the fuck are you gonna do, rig up your own ISP or charter a boat across the Atlantic? No, you're going to get reamed in the ass and keep living in the 21st century. These industries "fail" because they're designed to fail! Nobody wants to admit it, but you need a public option on this shit or else people will just keep being forced to publicly subsidize a select group of private enterprises over and over when shit goes tits up.

a3n 7y ago
> But what the fuck are you gonna do, rig up your own ISP or charter a boat across the Atlantic? No, you're going to get reamed in the ass and keep living in the 21st century. Or we can globally live within our means. It is apparently barely sustainable for people to be able to fly anywhere on a whim and a salary. If the globe being able to do this means that airlines must operate at constant arm's reach of bankruptcy and bailout, then we're living beyond our global means and society is ill-structured.

jariel 7y ago

"If they don't want to play a fair game," The government interfering existentially to shut down their business isn't quite 'fair game'. Put another way, the government could ban travel, in which case, the airlines could theoretically offer the flight, but the consumer would have to then cancel their ticket and pay a charge, or not get anything back. Point being the government interference could run both ways. So it's going to be a big problem clearing all of this up.

reaperducer 7y ago

That's a great way to put themselves out of business. If they don't want to play a fair game, you can well be assured that people will stop using their products as much as they could be. If there was real airline competition, sure. But there aren't a half dozen airlines flying between most cities. There are two, if you're lucky. Or one for the majority of city pairs in the United States.