MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]

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Cake day: 2020年7月30日

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  • Flight travel is profitable, keeping children alive surprisingly isn’t. Sorry, that’s just the infinite wisdom of the market at work.

    It would actually be really funny to publish a study evaluating the cost of this policy over the last 24 years, even in bullshit neoliberal economic analysis.

    Looking at the cost of time primarily - how long taking shoes on and off adds to the process, how many man hours have to go into TSA to do THAT specifically, the average wage of a traveler and the lost “value of their time” from the extra wait, and all of this multiplied by the hundreds of millions of flights per year.

    That’s what we’re willing to spend to keep airlines profitable because people get spooked off flying due to a really weird and niche terrorist attack for like, a week, but we won’t spend a goddamn DIME to stop children being ventilated in the halls of their schools.