Beating your meat. A hacking story.

[Brian37]

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.

I still don’t understand why it bothers you how other people spend their money.

Boru

It isn't a matter of how others spend their money. PLEASE STOP THAT.

It is a matter of lack of introspection at the top. Jeff Bezos wants the money he has, but the truth is for that class, he doesn't need that much. It isn't a matter of saying others cant have more. People at that class collectively have the same wealth as the rest of the world's middle and bottom earners. 

If Jeff only made 1 billion a year, he'd still be rich. If he only made 50 million a year, he'd still be rich. That is the part that bothers me. Not that he has more money than me. I've struggled myself, I most certainly know the difference of living paycheck to paycheck, vs now, in living off buffer of what my mother left me. I cant even say what she left me will get me to social security and Medicare. But I do know, I cant see how someone who makes as much as he does, has the nerve to bitch about his personal taxes or his corporate taxes going up.

I don't get the gap on a passenger jet about getting off early or food, when, no matter where you sit, I'd think the most important aspect of the flight is NOT DYING. 

Outside flying, even with restaurant food, fast food, vs sit down food. Yea, I am willing to pay a couple cents/dollars more, for a sit down burger vs a McDonald's burger, anyone would. But I don't think the price difference should be comically absurd. 

I don't care what individuals spend their money on. I do care about greed, and pricing everyone out of participating in the economy.