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Mar 20, 2019, 4:39 pm

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rickg523

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Quote:

Originally Posted by nk15

You are missing the point, both the obesity epidemic and the narrowing airline seats are the side effects and results of the same capitalism system being unchecked and going off the rails. If the trends continue and we go with the attitude expressed above, in 5 years obesity will be at 50% of the population and airline seats will be 15 inches wide, and so on. The system is broken and needs to be fixed. Doug if he had his way there will be only one airline and would make all seats 10 inches wide and ask everybody to buy two, because that's what unregulated capitalism does.

Badenoch is correct. The part of my response beyond my concurrence with the notion that people should simply be asked to pay for the space they occupy regardless of their physical condition, was beyond this thread's topic.
But in fact, my off-topic point was exactly the same as yours.