Comment by anovikov

>Not wikipedia, google maps, or e-commerce?

Google maps yes. You got me on that. Wikipedia, well, sort of, yes... it had a good beginning but is losing trustworthiness as it's being exploited more and more, it's surely a good source of info, still. e-commerce - i bought stuff online maybe 3-4x in my life (rare items that are never stocked in shops). Food delivery apps are a particularly notorious kind of evil, killing good businesses first.

Flights - it's not just the legroom. Because people started picking on the price, airlines had to get rid of business class or make it very flexible in size (meaning - use crappy "transformer" seats that can switch back to economy when needed). Or just simply leave middle seat empty and call it business. When price wasn't the only variable people chose tickets by, airlines could be a lot more comfortable with their costs and tried to sell premium product first - which is natural for every other normal business, premium product by definition brings higher margins. It's not just what i choose, it's what other people choose. Here in EU, we simply don't have any decent business class anywhere anymore.

Stocks - ETFs were a thing before internet and they don't require it. Vanguard exists since 1975 and it's fee structure didn't change since.