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California could ban Clear, which lets travelers pay to skip TSA lines
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Good. It is already a multitiered system and there is no reason to let it be any worse. Rich fucks should wait in line with us unwashed masses.
But also, wash your asses
Nah, eff that. I fly a lot both for business and for vacations, so I have high status and get upgraded every flight. Those upgrades get me a special security line, even though I'm not rich. If I had to wait in the normal line every flight behind people who have no idea how to take off their shoes, let alone that they have to take them off, I just wouldn't fly for work. Most of the people in those lines (Clear, TSA Pre, First Class) are people who travel a lot for work and know how to go through security faster. They also have to deal with that shit more often. Some of them are just rich assholes, but most of them are business travelers who would have significantly worse lives because you hate rich people.
Oh no I have to wait in line for a few more minutes. Woe is me woe is me.
You: "Rich fucks should wait in line with us"
Also you: "Oh no I have to wait in line for a few more minutes. Woe is me woe is me."
So if it isn't such a big deal to wait in line for a few more minutes, then why do you have a problem with rich people paying extra to avoid it? You are happy, they are happy, right?
Because it makes the line longer for me.
But you just said a few more minutes is no big deal. Woe is me woe is me. If you don't care about a few more minutes, then why do you care if your line is a little longer?
What part is your rich ass not getting? There are four lines if everyone just waits in the lines the lines move quick. If you make a special rich person line it means the other three move slowly as one line isn't at capacity.
I do not know how clear I can make it. Your rich person line sucks, you suck if you use it, and everyone has to suffer because you looked at a finite resource and said "fuck you, I got mine".
OK, so you refuse to acknowledge what you said about it not mattering much to you if the line takes a little longer.
Yeah sure Richie.
Dude, it's $200 per year. A) That's not rich person money. B) Most of the people willing to pay that little bit of money for the little bit of benefit are frequent travelers. C) Most of the people in the line didn't pay it at all. They got it through their credit card benefits or paid for by their company or a benefit by hitting status with an airline.
So I'll go back to what you said. When I pointed out that for frequent travelers it matters a lot to save a few minutes in line waiting for infrequent travelers to figure their shit out, you said it wasn't a big deal to wait a few extra minutes. But when YOU have to spend a few more minutes in line because of them, then it is suddenly a big deal. That's the issue I have. I can see your point about not having a pay-to-play feature giving the haves a benefit not available to the have-nots, but when you downplay the inconvenience for people who aren't haves but do have access to that line and then play up your inconvenience then it hurts your message.