Good points. This has been a productive discussion.

Sounds like a job for a wealth tax!

No that's not what I'm trying to do, I did mention shareholder dividends earlier. Much of the corporate profit has been routed through different income sources including investment-related ones, but this shouldn't be allowed to obscure the upward redistribution of pay that needs to be reversed no matter how complicated in might appear.

It's all there and my numbers are actually very conservative, this study found that there should be enough to double present-day incomes: https://time.com/5888024/50-tr...

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Increasing wages only increases costs to employers if it increases their total expenditure. If they reallocate the money from elsewhere, like shareholder dividends and upper management pay, expenditure and be held steady.

Hello ownership class supervillain! FYI, normal people only fly "cattle class" and thus would be unaffected by this. As long as our societies are democratic, we will do our best to keep you from destroying our planet for your personal pleasure including whatever jollies you get from waterboarding volcanoes with gasoline.

See also, congestion charges. Reduce traffic by making it too expensive for the poors to drive where the traffic is!

The solution to flight emissions isn't to make flying an exclusive privilege for the rich again, it's to pressure businesses to pay workers more of the fruits of their own labor so they can afford carbon capture to offset the emissions produced during their flight. Workers should be making at least 40% more money right now for starters.

I know what fun is, and the inconvenience and ill handling of a huge ungainly vehicle isn't it.

Americans mostly want huge vehicles because they're afraid - of the consequences of a wreck. They want to be some distance from, and ideally "upstairs from" where the wreck happens, which is what drives the ridiculous safety arms race we've been trapped in since the '90s.

Flying private starts at about 2x the cost of a first-class seat. I suspect most of the people who could fly private are already doing so, and if there were no business class a lot of those people would fly coach.

The profitability issue is a bigger problem: premium seats have the least people per square meter but generate the most dollars per square meter because they're disproportionately expensive. At a lot of airlines, coach tickets are effectively subsidized by rich idiots:

https://kerinmarketing.com/201...

That said there is at least one airline already that has all-coach seating, Ryanair. Air Canada Rouge also has little more than a nominal business class with seats that are very slightly roomier and more comfortable, and fancier in-flight service and airport services, although their coach seats have below-standard legroom. So the idea can work.

Segregating wasteful rich fliers into their own aircraft might also help to make it obvious that a minority of wealthy people are causing a disproportionate amount of the climate damage. That's a lot easier to see when they're jetting around in little Boom supersonic airliners etc. Right now regular airliners are obscuring the problem.

I expect that one of these sales agents will sell the whole company to some random troll for $1. Don't forget this is the same guy who put an AI coding agent in charge of his software development, which randomly deleted his production database:

https://www.theregister.com/20...

And if this guy is really the "Godfather of SaaS" then he is probably among the top 50 most destructive human beings alive right now.

Expect fungal infections in general to become more common as global warming pushes fungi to adapt to temperatures closer to human body temperature:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

This. Reducing worker labor through productivity improvements does not naturally happen under capitalism and in fact is naturally opposed by it. The reason most people work 5 days a week rather than 7 now is solely due to artificial restrictions on labor hours won by labor unions. The reason most people aren't working 3 days a week for what takes 5 days to make now is because labor unions haven't prevented the ownership class from taking the entirety of the last half-century of productivity gains for themselves.

If you want productivity improvements and technological advancements to benefit workers, support democratic socialism.

Yep, and those aren't high-vulnerability jobs, making this a strawman argument - some example of high-vulnerability jobs would be graphic artists, voice actors, and translators.

Actually yes, Ukraine intentionally attacks shadow fleet tankers when they're empty to avoid environmental disasters.