I loved listening to NPR with Kai Rissdal growing up until I realized that npr is totally a one-sided station supporting democrats. In a market place show today Kai talked about how the recent massive layoff doesn’t hurt much or have much of an impact, I am thinking to myself could he and those he interviewed say the same if they were the ones who lost their jobs? Oh, Nov election is coming soon and job loss number is not going to do well for Democratic candidate. Kai seems like a great and logical guy and I hope he only talks market place and not politics NPR sets him up.
Have to disagree on SW and the likely change somehow being a reflection of a class system. Arguably, just being in a position to travel by air already is the real distinction of your economic means. From there your ticket really just speaks to how much you are willing to spend for a certain comfort. You could be Warren Buffet and choose not to drop bags on that ticket for a 2hr flight or you could be a couple on their honeymoon splurging multiple bags on those tickets to Hawaii. Or you have a strong points and loyalty program game. The accessibility is there and people have agency, not getting into a particular social club because you’re the wrong gender or religion, that seems like an actual class problem. Anyway, I never fly SW if I don’t have to because not knowing my seat is just an extra annoyance and even anxiety inducing. This change would likely have me include them in search results in the future.
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I loved listening to NPR with Kai Rissdal growing up until I realized that npr is totally a one-sided station supporting democrats. In a market place show today Kai talked about how the recent massive layoff doesn’t hurt much or have much of an impact, I am thinking to myself could he and those he interviewed say the same if they were the ones who lost their jobs? Oh, Nov election is coming soon and job loss number is not going to do well for Democratic candidate. Kai seems like a great and logical guy and I hope he only talks market place and not politics NPR sets him up.
Have to disagree on SW and the likely change somehow being a reflection of a class system. Arguably, just being in a position to travel by air already is the real distinction of your economic means. From there your ticket really just speaks to how much you are willing to spend for a certain comfort. You could be Warren Buffet and choose not to drop bags on that ticket for a 2hr flight or you could be a couple on their honeymoon splurging multiple bags on those tickets to Hawaii. Or you have a strong points and loyalty program game. The accessibility is there and people have agency, not getting into a particular social club because you’re the wrong gender or religion, that seems like an actual class problem.
Anyway, I never fly SW if I don’t have to because not knowing my seat is just an extra annoyance and even anxiety inducing. This change would likely have me include them in search results in the future.