Beating your meat. A hacking story.

[Brian37]

I'm not. I said that if you expect corporate behaviour to change, the best way to do that is for consumer behaviour to change. It's not either/or, it's both.


I just said that, both in this post and in an earlier one.


I said that, as well. If you're going to argue with me, it might be in your best interests to take up a position contrary to mine.


This is called 'advertising'. It's what works, and no - they DON'T know any better.


Probably, which is why the sensible course is to give them a reason to give a fuck about something in addition to profits.


Another thing I already said. I'm flattered that you think highly enough of me to quote me to myself, but that really doesn't move the thread along.

[Snipped the confusing and off-topic bit about airfare prices.]

Boru

I think the part you snipped was letting us know how much his ticket to Australia cost.  Of course then there's the ticket he bought for his best friend in Oklahoma, John, or as we know him HillbillyAtheist.

Not sure how he knows someone up front paid 30K...but whatever.

It's important to get certain information out even if you have to camouflage it a bit.

I really hate text, it doesn't get across voice inflection.

I really had no problem paying for my best friend. As the saying goes "you can't take it with you." Not sure what the 30k response was about. I do know that I find first class tickets as much as a rip off as diamonds and caviar. I think that is what I was addressing. 

John's ticket I paid for was about the same as mine. I wasn't complaining about paying for him. Both of our tickets were around 2k for coach. What I don't understand, is why someone would pay 30k for first class, when all you are really paying for is being able to get on and off the plane first and for "better food", which is still heated in a microwave just the same as coach. And the fact that everyone on the jet lands at the same time, regardless of what they pay. 

It is not a matter of my knowing what an individual pays for first class, anyone can look online the price for a first class ticket. The earlier ahead of time you buy any class ticket, the cheaper it is. But there still is a huge price difference in price in class regardless. Take any airline, anyone of them, price them a year out for first class, or 6 months for first class, or even a month out, there is still a gigantic gap between first class and coach prices. I get some difference, there really are first class tickets on passenger jets that people pay that cost the same as a luxury car, and for what? At least the car is going to last 10-20 years. Your international flight will last anywhere from 12-24 hours. That makes no sense to me other than rich people like showing off.

If you can find online a first class ticket for an overseas flight for 2 grand, let me know. Good luck.

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Here is a link to some of the most expensive first passenger tickets ever recorded.

And believe me, I was shocked in both my trips, to find that some of the first class prices exceeded 20k. 

https://www.tripstodiscover.com/the-10-m...the-world/

And again, I get paying a little more to get off the plane faster, or a little more for different food. But in the end, in an emergency, if one were to happen, the people at the front of the plane are just as at the mercy of the pilots and weather conditions and jet design and maintenance as those who sit in coach and the back of the jet. So while a little price difference is about competition, the price gap is still absurd.