alt Hacker NewsJust stop subsidizing flying, maybe even tax the fuel a fraction of the value it’s destroying and I bet most of flying will suddenly turn out to actually be completely avoidable.
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ChrisMarshallNY • today at 10:14 AM
I think advances in remote work tech have had a huge impact on business travel.
Zoom beats Boom.
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dbspin • today at 10:59 AM
Insane take - this is just ensuring that the only people who get to enjoy travel are the rich. Nothing in our society is improved by taking a privilege that's widely enjoyed and restricting it to the wealthy or very wealthy.
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Yup. Make the flyers pay the infrastructure costs based on the environmental effects. It's not too complicated.