Came up with a very airport-business-book type of parable for conveying a lot of my opinions. In life a lot of decisions are like choosing between aisle, middle, and window seats on a plane.
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If you choose the window, you'll have a better view but have to interact more with fellow passengers to go to the bathroom. If you choose aisle, you'll have more social autonomy, but see nothing but other people and live by sheep logic.
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If you choose the middle seat, you'll have a slightly better view than aisle seat person, but a worse social experience than either window or aisle, since it's two armrest battles instead of 1, and almost as much bathroom protocol.
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Widebody planes are the worst of course, since there's a middle of the middle kinda deal. This has no redeeming qualities and you have to watch TV. It's developed world middle class.
If you have $, you can be in first class, with both a view and convenient bathroom access.
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Meta-comment.... Something really depressing about "business class" parables and metaphors. They are very mechanical/instrumental. You don't get more insight out of them than you put into them.
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Now I want to write a full-on ironic slim airport-business-book called "Choose the Window Seat" arguing that you should always choose window seat when you can in life. It will be 1/2" thick pocket sized hardcover with yellow cover and cartoon cover art. 14pt double spaced text.
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Weird thing about the window vs aisle bathroom situation is that window should be preferable bc you make other people stand up (and when you're on aisle other people make you stand up) but instead it's the opposite
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That's only a payoff if you earn status points from people you can easily see as beneath you, or as a way to work off ressentiment against your "social betters". Otherwise, it's just unwanted annoying interactions with people you have no particular status feelings towards.
Reminds me of how in early days of PCs, they had a design where boss would speak into a dictaphone for secretary to type into computers in the outer office. They quickly realized learning typing was easier and status signal value of having a secretary type for you was overrated.
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