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You could've said the same for air travel in the early days.

• AndrewKemendo 3y ago
  Well, we don’t have great figures on this but there are some estimates that only 20% of the human population has ever flown on an airplane. That seems like it’s a pretty heavily “gilded only” type of thing especially if you look at percentage distributions of flight frequency and by class.
  • tobyjsullivan 3y ago
    Where are you setting the bar for something to be commonly accessible? Only about 60% of the world’s population has reliable access to clean drinking water. 18% of people own a car. Compared to those numbers, 20% of people flying seems downright common - especially considering many people likely never fly simply because they have nowhere worth going (relative to cost).
    • AndrewKemendo 3y ago
      Yeah, it’s unconscionable that that such a small percentage of the population have access to clean, drinking water, given its triviality and creating So yes 100% of the population having clean water seems like the low bar As to flying, it’s probably good there aren’t more flyers