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You have my deepest sympathies, but to be clear, I would genuinely prefer to live in a world where airline pricing was more transparent and fair, I just can't attribute the fact that I don't live in that world to greed on the part of airlines
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This comment doesn't even make sense. Nobody is stopping you from pricing your services however you want
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Humans need a minimum of about 1,200 calories a day. If a human prices their services too low, they won't be able to afford to eat and will die. If a human prices their services too high, they won't be able to afford to eat and will die.

You cannot price your services however you want.

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I know you think you said something interesting, but you really didn't. You can absolutely price your services however you want, and if you die pricing your services too high or low: well that was a silly thing to want.

That has nothing to do with what we are talking about though, and was not the point in the first place. An airline obviously cannot price their services too high or low and expect to survive. You didn't show how the user's comment made sense in the context that it was originally made, nor did you give a proper retort to my comment.

You just picked the wrong thing to focus on and contributed nothing to the conversation.

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“Good” schools are made up of their members. Good houses are largely a function of location, and community. Good groceries… I don’t know. Never knew this was an issue in the year 2026 outside of, like, North Korea.

But anyhow, you see the problem.

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> Never knew this was an issue in the year 2026 outside of, like, North Korea.

Look up food deserts. I'm sure there are myriad issues you think exist only in North Korea.

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Food deserts are simply a consequence of grocery retailers avoiding locations that are unprofitable because of high shrinkage.
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Blue Apron, instacart, hello fresh, etc. The logistical options boggle the mind, as long as one has enough money.
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Likely cheaper than owning a car in a food desert though.
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If one had enough money they wouldn't be living in a food desert.
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I honestly don’t see the point of this comment, it’s not even that coherent. Are you saying poor communities should just go conjure up some “location” benefits, or conjure up some money to get more nutritious food? Please expand.
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> it’s not even that coherent.

They are saying the biggest problem with the poor communities you're talking about is the people living in them. That seems true statistically no? Or at least, there's more data that supports that than the idea that there's magic soil in the rich communities.

Are we going to pretend like communities aren't shaped by their people now and everybody is just NPCs that has no influence over what their communities look like?

We can at least rule out that poor people can't make good communities because there are plenty of counterexamples that show otherwise.

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Maybe if you took one step farther out, you would see that the reasons some people and communities are poor are due to external factors. But go on, keep blaming all your problems on the individual poor people that obviously have something wrong with them.
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> But go on, keep blaming all your problems on the individual poor people that obviously have something wrong with them.

Well, I didn't say I had any problems so I'm not sure what you're even referencing here. Weird strawman

> you would see that the reasons some people and communities are poor are due to external factors.

Oh spare me. This is like reaching algebra and thinking you've reached the frontier of mathematics in 2026. As if nature vs nurture wasn't drilled into every prepubescent brain in even the worst school systems in the west. It seems that you're the one that's unable to escape elementary pop psychology.

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I see from your history you have some incredibly bad takes and analogies that simply don’t work. Most of what you say I doubt even you understand. For your own sake, go get out of whatever bubble you’re in for 5 minutes.
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