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In the 1970s, plane travel was rare and expensive, with high quality service and everything sparkling. Long distance phone calls were exciting. There was much
by joe_the_user 5y ago
In the 1970s, plane travel was rare and expensive, with high quality service and everything sparkling. Long distance phone calls were exciting.
There was much less future, it was less advanced but it felt more special, yes.
- eru 5y agoPart of the reason air travel was rare and expensive was regulation. De-regulation of air travel made it cheap and commonplace. See eg https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AirlineDeregulation.html https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AirlineDeregulation.html
- joe_the_user 5y agoYep, Deregulation made air travel cheap, commonplace and miserable. I took Greyhound across the country several times in t70s. The quality of travel in airplanes is essentially at that level - but much faster of course. The 1950-70s were an era of regulated private monopolies. Those regulation stood in the way of all sorts of progress but also gave a substantial portion of the working class a middle class income. I'm not going to argue whether one was better than the other because the change was inevitable, we'll never change back, just "change forward" to some further situation.
- eru 5y agoYou can still get really, really good air travel, if you are willing to pay those past prices.