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monksy on July 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon e...

This is the same reason why we still have terrible economy experiences on airplanes. All of the airlines are focused on trying to maximimize revenue by forcing you to upgrade (if you want anything remotely non-terrible), and they all do it because they're all desperate to complete for the bottom.

(Well except for the MEA Carriers)

8note on July 31, 2021 [–]

There's basically no profit from economy seats. The first/second class seats subsidize the economy ones.

They're terrible because they're only there to fill a public good

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