airlines are a funny example of the extraordinary lengths consumers go to opt INTO class systems. a century of marxists refuse to understand this basic human truth: as long as the rules are simple, with upgrades both possible and routine, people actually love this shit.
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Class hierarchies are attractive, but also destabilizing. The narcissism of small differences.
https://www.economist.com/gulliver/2016/05/11/resentment-of-first-class-passengers-can-be-a-cause-of-air-rage …
i think the broader thing is this impulse is actually core to our species - where have we *not* had class hierarchies
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Native American communities?
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(Or broader, communities where wealth accumulation and private property don’t exist)
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