Because Americans have no class consciousness
Ship travel in the age of sail was more accommodating. At least you can walk around and shit.
Only up on the poop deck though.
Well for me it was money, I flew Spirit
Because we don't own the means of production.
They used to be also fascinated by plastic.
I bet their smiles would not last long realizing that the 5g bag of pretzels has 2g of plastic (and that's just the tip of the plastiberg).
My father's generation thought planes would just get faster and faster and by now we'd be able to fly from NYC to Tokyo in 40 minutes
Concorde wasn't far off that sort of speed. But it was too expensive. Such speeds will probably return in some form one day.
Look at you, flying on rich planes with that much space in front of you
Good old airlines and their ideal business model:
Charge you like you're flying on Concorde.
Treat you like you're on a 16th century slaving ship.
Don't forget that enshittification creeps into the real world as well
One word: "Greed"
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