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it truly is unfortunate how society punishes you for being single. Insurance, tax, credit worthiness, even health care. i wonder how low birthrate societies li
by notepad0x90 1y ago
it truly is unfortunate how society punishes you for being single. Insurance, tax, credit worthiness, even health care.
i wonder how low birthrate societies like Japan or South Korea are like, is it worse to improve birthrates? or is it better because being single isn't an anomaly?
More importantly, the number of single/solo people isn't even low in the US. If i had to ballpark it, at least a quarter of the population is like that. Lots of married people travel solo for business for example. Why aren't some airlines playing capitalism well by offering "business elite" flights where solo travelers get a loyalty discount and there are no children on the flight? Not for all destinations but at least popular ones like to vegas or NYC <-> LAX.
- phil21 1y agoAirlines already do that for business routes. Just in the other direction on pricing. Pre-Covid there were a couple airlines playing around with business class only flights from NY to LA. Solo business travelers are where the money is made. The rest of the seats tend to exist at cost or even below to fill up the plane. Airlines would be pretty foolish to try to lower margin on the least price sensitive class of traveler they service.