Class 'Inequity' Fuels Air Rage

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• acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Regulators have been relying on a punitive approach to stem the tide […] The National Post quoted sources saying the rate of in-flight nastiness is roughly double what it was in 2019 and […] seems to be increasing […]. Transport Canada […] is considering adding a fine structure for passengers who abuse security agents.

  “Our punitive approach isn’t working, so we’ll add another punitive measure,” says regulating agency failing to regulate market to lesser consumer exploitation.

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  • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was honestly expecting them to go the route of just hiding the inequality by finding a way to get economy passengers on the plane without going through first/business class.

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It used to be like that. There was even a curtain so the plebs couldn’t see what was on the upper classes.

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    • BobDole@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What’s the point in buying a business class ticket if the poors aren’t forced to walk passed my luxurious chair/bed on their way to the most uncomfortable twelve hours of their life?

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    • ericjmorey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The study shows that this strategy is only half effective.

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• Illogicalbit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Who knew normalizing being nasty in public would have this kind of effect? /s

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• Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “We advance an alternative view: the modern airplane reflects a social microcosm of class-based society, making inequality salient to passengers through both the physical design of the plane (the presence of a first class cabin) and, more subtly, the boarding procedure (whether economy passengers must pass through the first class cabin),”

  So dysfunction on planes is a possible indicator people are ready to get violent in society as a whole due to its inequalities being made more obvious onboard. Really starting to think I’m going to see a NA revolution in my lifetime but I’ll be too old to ‘enjoy’ it.

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