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Re: What to do about inequality?
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That's the most perverted form of it. It's basically, "If you can afford this, we don't think you're a risk. If you can't, we assume you might be of bad character and cannot be so sure."
It also tends to undercut the assumption that our extreme airport security is effective and necessary. If the chance of terrorist act is so low that we can screen people by wealth, do you really need so many folks taking off their shoes so many times?
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I think it's really that airlines pay so that their better customers don't have a crappy experience, but the result is the same.
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