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Whilst airline travel itself may be commodity, that single component contains an entire chain of needs for which many components won't be commodity. It's the same with power (i.e. electricity), there's a world of change and innovation hidden behind the plug ...
... take for example, the automotive industry. A car? What's difficult about a car? It's becoming a commodity surely? ...
... well, there's a world of components underneath that. All of those components are evolving ...
... and as they evolve, new business models can form along with unintended consequences (i.e. embedding social inequality into transportation systems through digital subscription and self driving cars).
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Excellent article. To be brutal, I shut down my mind to this subject when I left the field in the 1990s. I am amazed at those that continue despite the knowledge that society is committing harikari in pursuit of profit. It was enough then, it's enough now to drive you mad ->
key phrase “I’ve trained my brain to not torture myself about things that are outside my control” - you have to. Scale of the risk known in the 1990s was truly horrendous but we had a chance to change which was soundly ignored. I can barely imagine what the field is like today.
Of course, the solution is we all escape on a big spaceship, travelling through the stars, with start of the art life support systems, gravity, food generation and water recycling ... let us call this spaceship - "Earth" - oh wtf. Stop wrecking our spaceship! Muppets!
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X : You are intolerant of other views.
Me : You mean I disagree with you? I do however find my tolerance of views promoting fascism, communism or neoliberalism to be very low. I struggle with those three mostly because of the deaths and misery caused.
... I don't like views which incorporate exclusion, suffering and often violence within them. I find them troubling.
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X : How many times have you been to Munich?
Me : Oh, about twenty.
X : So, you know it quite well?
Me : Oh, no. I don't know the place at all. That's business / conference travel for you. It's a pretty dreadful way to see the world unless you can create actual time to visit.
... if you really want to see the world, if you really want to appreciate it ... you need to use your feet. No airlines, no cars ... just walk.
It's why, when I get time ... I go for gentle 7 to 8 hour walks. You never see a place in the back of a car or plane, you just get a few photo opportunities.
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