mikybee93

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by mikybee93 7y ago
No it hasn't. Airline prices have trended downwards over time.
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by mikybee93 7y ago
And it's also not a coincidence that flights have gotten cheaper across the board. Airlines have, as a whole, found that it's more profitable to sell cheaper crappy seats than it is to sell more expensive nice seats, because nobod
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by mikybee93 7y ago
That isn't what has happened historically, in this market or in others. I don't know why so many people seem to expect this to happen now. If Delta decides to implement these seats and then charge 2x as much for the current seats,
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by mikybee93 7y ago
Apparently they have over 180 million passengers a year[0]. That means that, at most, they're making $7 per passenger. It's not like they're gouging their customers. [0] https://news.delta.com/corporate-stats-a
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by mikybee93 7y ago
>And assuming they don’t just move in lock-step with their other competitors and make these new seats the default Well then they wouldn't be competitors, would they? That's another problem. Any single airline could disrupt the
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by mikybee93 7y ago
But in order for that to work, every single airline would have to do that together, holding hands. Because there are multiple airlines, a single airline could choose not to install them and keep their current prices for seats and outcompete
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by mikybee93 7y ago
I don't think anyone suggested that all seats are going to be replaced by these.
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by mikybee93 7y ago
This makes no sense to me. Airlines are adding another option that is cheaper. How is that a bad thing? If I don't want the cheaper option, another airline will offer me a more comfortable one and I'll pay for it. What is there to
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by mikybee93 8y ago
That's silly. You could also say that humans don't really deserve praise since our motives are ultimately guided by our self interest. We only do things to make ourselves feel good, or make ourselves look better. I think that comp
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by mikybee93 8y ago
This is talked about by Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies... The idea of there being too many jobs that require degrees (but really don&#x2
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by mikybee93 8y ago
I think that should be why you don't read youtube comments, and have nothing to do with reddit. Look at the comments on the post from reddit instead: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8nk31a/l
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by mikybee93 8y ago
Not quite. I could say "I support colonizing mars" and "I support the colonization of mars" and those both mean the same thing, don't they? I'm not actively participating in either of those acts, am I? I think