As if businesses had more than a few quarters in mind. I really don’t think they care for they’re already extracted the profit when shit hits the fan.

Flying used to be for the ultra rich, people’d gather around them to listen to their plane ride story. The poor in this case are not the poorest but poor comparatively

Yes, it’s a way to extract something from all buckets. Higher income people you can get more money but with low incoming ones you get a lot more quantity since there are way more lower income people. Laws and regulations prevent people standing up or overloading planes with passengers so this is the alternative.

Israel is the tip of the lance of the American Imperialism projecting power throughout the Middle East with the American backing. The regular American isn’t the beneficiary in any way, quite on the contrary, its their taxes that are backing it.

For the world I want to live in it is not. Seems surreal but maybe it’s not that world anymore, and I fear it will get worse.