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> We vote for the one we prefer every time we buy something. Not really, no. We can probably count on more resilient products being more expensive, but we can
by speedybird 5y ago
> We vote for the one we prefer every time we buy something.
Not really, no. We can probably count on more resilient products being more expensive, but we can't count on more expensive products being more resilient. It doesn't work that way. There is really no way for an average consumer to know which expensive products are expensive because they are sold by resilient companies, and which are expensive for innumerable other reasons. Most purchases are made by people who lack the knowledge, experience or training that would be required to evaluate the resilience of a business.
Voting for something without knowledge about that something is farcical. Ultimately this "voting" is little more than rhetoric used to push the blame onto those with the least insight into how the system works.
- dantheman 5y agoThere is a clear difference between airlines like Delta, Air France, etc and value airlines like ryan air, jetblue, southwest.
- speedybird 5y agoDelta is the airline that abandoned me for 40 hours in ATL of all places, while Southwest has never let me down. If you had asked me a week ago which of the two was more reliable, I would have told you Southwest and I would have meant it absolutely. How would you have me judge them? I don't know anything about how to run an airline and I wouldn't even know where to start if you asked me to look up which of the two had a more resilient business model. You can't really expect any random air traveler to have an opinion on airlines better informed than their personal experiences. I think most people would struggle to tell you something so basic as what sort of plane they were even sitting in.