Well, for one thing they didn’t have jobs that expected them to fly. Or take up international positions far from their families. Because the world infrastructure was, obviously, not built on commercial flight at the time.
Like it or not, things that were once luxuries are now necessities. These days, you basically need internet access to get a job. Was that always a requirement? Of course not. Now that employers expect to be able to contact you via e-mail? It sure is. Just like before the telephone was invented, having a phone wasn’t a job requirement, but it became one over time.
You’ll even note your rhetorical question there doesn’t address any of the issues I pointed out. It deflects them with an “Oh, well people USED to manage” but it doesn’t answer any of the issues. Before commercial flight, my office mate wouldn’t have been a woman from India. But we have it, and it is. What’s your advice for her? “Never see your family again?” Before internet, I wouldn’t have been in a relationship with someone from the UK. But there was internet, and I was. What’s your advice for me? “Let a corporation end a seven year relationship?” Hardly seems a fitting way to stop them screwing me over, does it? What about the conference issue I have now? What’s your advice there? “Don’t let them push you around! Give up your aspirations of a degree, get fired, and lose your health insurance!”
This is like saying “The travel ban isn’t a problem! Just never leave the country!” It’s only a workable solution for people who never had the problem in the first place.
The rise of the power-wielding nobodies. Trump’s election has emboldened those that are supposed to provide customer service to become rule enforcers and petty bureaucrats. What has America become in such a short time?
Insane. I fly delta all the time because miles lock in. I’ve had to pee after boarding before take off many times. I always politely ask the attendant if I may use the bathroom before take off. Never have I been denied. What the hell was the crew thinking? Making everyone exit the plane and then get back on just b/c of this? childish.
I feel your frustration but if you do that and then are beaten to a pulp by security. I’ll probably think to myself dude was crazy he pissed in the aisle and this is after getting into several arguments where I state that Dr. David Dao is the civil rights here America needs =P
Uh, life was way different then. Like most people never went more than 50 miles from home or something. Sure, people emigrated to other countries, like from Russia to the US, by boat, in steerage. But not more than once, if they could help it.
Come to think of it, flying now is sort of like being in steerage back in 1910.
C’mon, have some compassion for these folks who either have to fly or lose their jobs, families, and/or relationships.
Not to mention that even if you were willing to travel by boat like our 19th Century ancestors did you probably couldn’t anyway since passenger transit by sea has been almost entirely replaced by airplanes (with the exception of desperate refugees, merchant marines and luxury cruise lines).
Joke all you want about urine-soaked seats, security theater is serious business! Every republic president needs a new war to consolidate their power. If it’s not the middle East (so last century!) Then #45 is determined to make it North Korea. And this has everything to do with noncooprative passengers being treated as terrorists.
They know they are protected, because so many people need to fly at one point or another, and that if they get into financial trouble, Congress will vote to bail them out, because flying is critical to the smooth functioning of the US and global economy.
