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Comment by 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.

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scarface74  4 years ago

How much could you reduce your carbon footprint if you didn’t use HN? Google?

Silly questions aren’t they?

  • lxgr  4 years ago

    Note that you're the one bringing the "carbon footprint" concept into this conversation, not me.

    > How much could you reduce your carbon footprint if you didn’t use HN? Google?

    Again, I don't really subscribe to the idea of carbon footprints, but for the sake of the argument: Insignificantly little, compared to the emissions caused by the flights I take.

    > Silly questions aren’t they?

    Absolutely.