After 9/11 the airline industry was in shambles, no one wanted to fly
Stocks plummeted, regular people sold as fast as they could.
Billionaires bought it at the bottom, because they had already started lobbying for the bailout. They got big checks, stock recovered, they made crazy money.
But it wasn’t enough, they instituted these “temporary fees” to pay for what they lobbied for to make Americans feel safe enough: security theater.
20+ years later we’re all still paying money in taxes for this, even if we’ve never set foot on a plane. And the airlines use it to justify getting their own slice.
Like, you realize tax money pays for it already anyways, right? We’re all paying the security billfor private billion dollar corporations, and because we have no other options, they still have the balls to charge customers for it.
That’s just how it is in capitalism, when ethics aren’t mandated any organization that forgoes ethics for profits will do better than others and eventually absorb or replace them.
Cyberpunk dystopia isn’t a possible future, it’s the inevitable result of unregulated capitalism
Of course the U.S. would find a way to charge you for terrorism.
Capitalism always wins in America
That’s not capitalism.
After 9/11 the airline industry was in shambles, no one wanted to fly
Stocks plummeted, regular people sold as fast as they could.
Billionaires bought it at the bottom, because they had already started lobbying for the bailout. They got big checks, stock recovered, they made crazy money.
But it wasn’t enough, they instituted these “temporary fees” to pay for what they lobbied for to make Americans feel safe enough: security theater.
20+ years later we’re all still paying money in taxes for this, even if we’ve never set foot on a plane. And the airlines use it to justify getting their own slice.
Like, you realize tax money pays for it already anyways, right? We’re all paying the security billfor private billion dollar corporations, and because we have no other options, they still have the balls to charge customers for it.
That’s just how it is in capitalism, when ethics aren’t mandated any organization that forgoes ethics for profits will do better than others and eventually absorb or replace them.
Cyberpunk dystopia isn’t a possible future, it’s the inevitable result of unregulated capitalism
You say it as if it is a bad thing. Want communism or theocracy?
Most places do, they just lump it into the total cost instead of outright telling you.