Originally Posted by
ScottC
That's the nice thing about owning your own blog - you can write whatever you want. Normally, you only need to worry about people complaining in your comments section about your posts, and not an entire forum on a competing travel board.
You're welcome!
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Originally Posted by
lwildernorva
It's his libertarian streak trying to break through. Government shouldn't regulate, even if the abuses are dire. So it must be the consumer's fault. Although it's possible some of the gullible customers were folks who have heard that everything's more expensive in New York. And aren't HUCA folks--they just pay what they're told to pay. Maybe they can be criticized for that a bit, but really do you want to be in line behind the guy at Target who decides to take that logic to its extreme?
I don't mind his politics even though they reflect a pro-business Koch-ian view of the world. I just wish his politics were a little more consistently applied. He is very pro-Uber's dynamic pricing because free markets are good and in free markets price is set by demand, ideally in real time. But he is very anti-Delta's dynamic pricing of award tickets because...well, because he doesn't want dynamic pricing of award tickets. Bad for him and bad for his award booking business. But apparently hot dogs are more like Uber than they are like Delta award tickets.
Then again, we all tend to let our personal cupidity trump our political philosophy. Human nature.