start your own company with investors who agree with you and prove that your business plan is better, instead of pretending you know better than those who are taking the risks.
It's more than a few thousand, and that higher cost will be passed on to future passengers. When the cost to the company goes up, the well-being of passengers goes down.
United has announced a change, i.e., to never again eject a passenger by force, which means future costs will be higher, because the one-out-of-ten-billion passenger who does this will not be removable, and so some other passengers who would have yielded their seat now will not do so, and costs will be much higher than they would have been otherwise. Probably it means there will be more empty seats on future flights, because they won't be able to book as many.
If that passenger had left the plane, like the other 3 -- the law-abiding passengers -- did, then the future costs would not have to go up, and the well-being of all consumers would have been served. But now, because of his bad behavior, costs to all future passengers will be higher, and their well-being lower.
It is this elevation of small sums of money over humane treatment of people that is the reason for the outcry here;
No, the cost-savings, the money, is also important to future passengers, and a guarantee that no one can be forcefully removed regardless of the rules will lead to future costs which will be a net harm to all the consumers, and thus will be inhumane treatment. It's inhumane to reduce people's standard of living by forcing them to pay unnecessarily higher prices.
this is not an isolated incident, but rather is a particularly public instance of a widespread problem across corporate America.
How many times each day does corporate America drag a passenger kicking-and-screaming from a plane? each month? year? How is this a "widespread problem"? Corporate America is doing a good job of avoiding such incidents as this. With all the cameras now everywhere recording everything, it's almost a miracle that we have so few cases of this.
People are more important than a few thousand dollars, . . .
Which is why that guy should have got off the plane willingly. He has now reduced the standard of living to millions of Americans, costing them millions of dollars, not just a few thousand.
. . . and if you cannot trust your staff to make decisions about such sums of cash, then you sure as shit should not be entrusting them with the welfare of your customers.
The good decisions now cannot be made, because the problem can no longer be addressed with a moderate solution, whoever makes the decisions, because a thoughtless knee-jerk solution is the only kind possible now.
In addition to this passenger, the many apologists for him are to blame for the higher cost which will now be paid, and thus the lower standard of living society will suffer because they put one crybaby ahead of the public good.
transit police) hadn't violated their own policy and a couple laws as well. Lots of blame to go around.
