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Originally Posted by mars6423
my dad works in singapore but is constantly traveling between there, switzerland, london, and here in new york, but fail to see the importance of why you bring that up
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It is very relevant, Mars my young friend. Let me hazard a guess. You have a degree in Business, moved with your dad when he went to take an executive job in Singapore. Now you don't work, enjoy all the good life that Singapore has to offer and sometimes jet around the world on the strength of your dad's wallet. If the airline costed you $511 unnecessarily, you would just pull out the gold credit card your dad gave you and pay it without question.
I myself grew up many years ago in a middle class family in England, enjoyed all the good things for many years and would in my earlier days have always sided with the establishment, which would include airlines, and against the consumer. But there comes a time when you pause and ask yourself whether all of what you support is right, expecially when you see advantage being taken of people by large corporations.
Now I am not saying that you necessarily will take the same direction as me in your thinking. When you reach the point when you begin to think independently, you may still side with the airlines. But at least you would be thinking independently and your opinion would be worth something. At the moment, when you express a view, especially when you are rehashing and rehashing and rehashing the same arguments over and over without even trying to address what the other side is saying, I can see not an independent voice speaking, but the voice of someone who doesn't want to upset the apple cart he is riding on and is depending on for all the good things he enjoys.