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No, I can safely say there are billions (with a b) of people in this world who could never afford to take a $100 car ride across town and back. If you think th

by ck2 12y ago

No, I can safely say there are billions (with a b) of people in this world who could never afford to take a $100 car ride across town and back. If you think this is normal, you are in an elite group and only use people in your group to compare to. Even if there are a million people in that group, it is still elite.

seanmcdirmid 12y ago
And these billions of people are all living in the states and flying into Colorado? As an American, I thought American taxis were expensive until I visited Europe some....wow, or even japan. It's all about the perspective. Chinese farmers are in an elite group compared to African or even Vietnamese farmers...so what is your point?
oldmanjay 12y ago
there are 330 million people in the US for whom these rates are perfectly normal. if you want to call us an elite group, those are your words. if you want us to apologize for having an advanced economy, you might be waiting a while.
- chippy 12y ago
  and the irony is that Uber's main business model is making these rates cheaper! (I've been to Denver once - I took a shuttle bus from the airport to my hotel on Colfax (took long way around and was not that cheap) and the public bus back to the terminal which left from the central bus station, was cheap and direct.)
Napapijri 12y ago
There are also billions of people that will never fly.
will_hughes 12y ago
Of the roughly 750 million people who caught a plane in the US in the 12 months to April 2014[1], many of them will have paid a driver to get them to and from the airport. Arguing that they shouldn't complain about crappy service or being harassed by authorities, because billions of others can't even afford a taxi is a pretty bad argument. Person A: "We should be demanding that our authorities look more closely at the quality of water in our town. Having it contain high amounts of flammable gasses is not ok." Person B: "But there's billions of people in the world who don't even have clean drinking water" It doesn't invalidate person A's argument - yes, there's lots of people without drinking water or without the $100 to spend on two taxis. Yes, we need to do something about it. We don't, however, need to completely disregard everything else until that problem is fixed. We're capable, as a society, of dealing with multiple issues concurrently. [1] = http://apps.bts.gov/xml/air_traffic/src/index.xml http://apps.bts.gov/xml/air_traffic/src/index.xml
brown9-2 12y ago
What is the purpose of this line of argument? "Most people in the world can't afford taxi rides like this so don't complain about how the police treat it"?
ganeumann 12y ago
There should be a name for this ridiculous argument, so we can just name it and dismiss it.

by ck2 12y ago

seanmcdirmid 12y ago

And these billions of people are all living in the states and flying into Colorado? As an American, I thought American taxis were expensive until I visited Europe some....wow, or even japan. It's all about the perspective. Chinese farmers are in an elite group compared to African or even Vietnamese farmers...so what is your point?

oldmanjay 12y ago

there are 330 million people in the US for whom these rates are perfectly normal. if you want to call us an elite group, those are your words. if you want us to apologize for having an advanced economy, you might be waiting a while.

chippy 12y ago
and the irony is that Uber's main business model is making these rates cheaper! (I've been to Denver once - I took a shuttle bus from the airport to my hotel on Colfax (took long way around and was not that cheap) and the public bus back to the terminal which left from the central bus station, was cheap and direct.)

Napapijri 12y ago

There are also billions of people that will never fly.

will_hughes 12y ago

Of the roughly 750 million people who caught a plane in the US in the 12 months to April 2014[1], many of them will have paid a driver to get them to and from the airport. Arguing that they shouldn't complain about crappy service or being harassed by authorities, because billions of others can't even afford a taxi is a pretty bad argument. Person A: "We should be demanding that our authorities look more closely at the quality of water in our town. Having it contain high amounts of flammable gasses is not ok." Person B: "But there's billions of people in the world who don't even have clean drinking water" It doesn't invalidate person A's argument - yes, there's lots of people without drinking water or without the $100 to spend on two taxis. Yes, we need to do something about it. We don't, however, need to completely disregard everything else until that problem is fixed. We're capable, as a society, of dealing with multiple issues concurrently. [1] = http://apps.bts.gov/xml/air_traffic/src/index.xml http://apps.bts.gov/xml/air_traffic/src/index.xml

brown9-2 12y ago

What is the purpose of this line of argument? "Most people in the world can't afford taxi rides like this so don't complain about how the police treat it"?

ganeumann 12y ago

There should be a name for this ridiculous argument, so we can just name it and dismiss it.