Do you make the same argument complaining on the expense of a vacation “experience”, while insisting on buying first class tickets and staying at 4&5 star hotels?
what your original argument was suggesting was to buy the expensive first class tickets and pitch a tent in the middle of a quarry and hunt squirrels for food at your dream destination. Might as well not book the flight in that case.
I get you’re being over the top to make a point, but it seems a bit ridiculous to compare overpriced popcorn to a first class plane ticket and staying at an expensive hotel. We’re talking about experiences that people used to indulge in on a whim, or which were reasonably affordable for average folks. That is not the case with the examples you provided, and those kind of purchases are large even for some people of means.
The extra popcorn and candy was always overpriced even in the 80s. That’s why I never got any as a kid. Nothing has changed. Ticket prices have even pretty flat for a decade now.
Do you make the same argument complaining on the expense of a vacation “experience”, while insisting on buying first class tickets and staying at 4&5 star hotels?
what your original argument was suggesting was to buy the expensive first class tickets and pitch a tent in the middle of a quarry and hunt squirrels for food at your dream destination. Might as well not book the flight in that case.
That makes sense, when the idea is to spend time unplugged in your dream destination. It sounds nice.
But it doesn’t make sense, unless the expensive first class ticket is the only ticket.
I get you’re being over the top to make a point, but it seems a bit ridiculous to compare overpriced popcorn to a first class plane ticket and staying at an expensive hotel. We’re talking about experiences that people used to indulge in on a whim, or which were reasonably affordable for average folks. That is not the case with the examples you provided, and those kind of purchases are large even for some people of means.
The extra popcorn and candy was always overpriced even in the 80s. That’s why I never got any as a kid. Nothing has changed. Ticket prices have even pretty flat for a decade now.
Really they’ve gone up.
It is ridiculous. But the logic is the same. Which shows the flaw in the logic.
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