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The idea that Donald Marron (who argues "we ought to allocate the initial property right to the person likely to care most about reclining... the person sitting
by Shivatron 12y ago
The idea that Donald Marron (who argues "we ought to allocate the initial property right to the person likely to care most about reclining... the person sitting behind") is wrong simply because the author has never had anyone attempt to negotiate with him is specious. If I spread out across two seats on a busy subway, I would probably also say I "rarely had anyone complain... and nobody has ever offered me money."
(I also find the whole tall-privilege angle interesting, especially given the vitriolic way he framed the debate on Twitter -- "The world favors the tall, yet they have the gall to whine about the one place (airplanes) where height costs them" -- but being 6'6" I'll leave that aside lest I be accused of advancing some sort of tall agenda.)
- CocaKoala 12y agoThere's definitely a weird and creepy bias against short men (for a fun time, check out twitter.com/heightismxposed and gawk at people who are literally saying that any guy who's under some arbitrary benchmark is subhuman and should kill himself), but as somebody who's a foot shorter than you, I will happily jump in and say that reclining seats on an airline is not part of the War on Short Men; this dude is just crazy and bitter.
- DSMan195276 12y agoWell dang. I'm 5'6''/5'7'' as well, but I never really thought I was that short until now.
- CocaKoala 12y agoThink of it this way: now you have a nicely curated list of people who's opinions you know are completely worthless, and if you ever run into any of these people in person you have advance warning that they're moronic!
- regularfry 12y ago6'7" here. Tall privilege is definitely a thing, but saying that giving private companies more of my money under threat of physical pain is a socially just compensator is frankly absurd.