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You mean, the privacy of those people who will be scanned and groped by TSA thugs minutes after they've checked their luggage in? It seems that people are read
by fab13n 15y ago
You mean, the privacy of those people who will be scanned and groped by TSA thugs minutes after they've checked their luggage in?
It seems that people are ready to give up the last bit of dignity as soon as they enter an airport; if a company could offer a substantial discount in exchange for paying by the kg, many people would cope with it. Not everyone, but enough people to sustain an airline company.
The reason why it won't happen is because their pricing scheme is already optimized to extract the last dime each traveler is willing to pay. Introducing a weight variable would mess that system up.
- vacri 15y agoThe article is from Melbourne, Australia. We don't have scanners or pat-downs. But anyway, I used to work in a call centre doing anonymous cold-calling social surveys for government. One survey had a section on sexual abuse and rape - and a few of us found it odd that some respondants would open up their private lives answering these questions, sometimes in a fair amount of detail, but still balk at the standard demographic section at the end where they are asked their income bracket. Some magic numbers are more significant than others.