There are so many things we could just stop doing, but they make rich assholes unhappy. That’s true for like all of humanity, but the scale is global now instead of just “the peasants are eating dirt”
Though now I’m thinking of a story where someone infiltrates their way into being the pilot for a rich asshole, and then jumps out and lets the billionaire blow up in the crash. Noting that down for my near-future dystopia tabletop rpg.
That does sound like a World of Darkness glasswalker mission.
But in regard to banning private jet travel… That would be the rational solution. But our society is irrational specifically because it’s structured and led by the small group of people flying in those private jets.
It’s not just that it would make the rich assholes unhappy, there’s a whole percentage of the population that will never be able to afford a jet but thinks ‘but one day I might have a private jet, and I don’t want to have that chance taken away from me’…
Just ban private jets.
There are so many things we could just stop doing, but they make rich assholes unhappy. That’s true for like all of humanity, but the scale is global now instead of just “the peasants are eating dirt”
Though now I’m thinking of a story where someone infiltrates their way into being the pilot for a rich asshole, and then jumps out and lets the billionaire blow up in the crash. Noting that down for my near-future dystopia tabletop rpg.
That does sound like a World of Darkness glasswalker mission.
But in regard to banning private jet travel… That would be the rational solution. But our society is irrational specifically because it’s structured and led by the small group of people flying in those private jets.
It’s not just that it would make the rich assholes unhappy, there’s a whole percentage of the population that will never be able to afford a jet but thinks ‘but one day I might have a private jet, and I don’t want to have that chance taken away from me’…