Comment by lxgr

4 years ago

What do you think would be the chances of a flight taking off empty, day after day, without the airline cancelling it?

I fly for both business and leisure myself, but arguing that "the plane will take off with or without me on it" is beyond ridiculous.

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scarface74  4 years ago

Unless you have your own private plane, the airplane would just as much take off without you as Google would still be running servers whether you used it or not.

Are you alone going to make a difference by not flying? Like that neocon anti-environmental Obama said “we aren’t going to save the planet by throwing a bottle in the recycling bin”

  • lxgr  4 years ago

    Is it really that hard to understand?

    The airplane takes off if, on average, the sum of dollars that all ticketed passengers are willing to pay for the benefit of being on it is larger than the operational and capital cost of the airline for operating that one flight.

    Your contribution (in a purely causal sense, regardless of what moral statement you might read into it) to all of this is very indirect and diluted, but that does not make it zero.