The planet of people placed into ever more cramped seating on planes.

People aren’t rats, but rats provide a lesson in how behavior becomes worse when placed in increasingly cramped and/or increasingly overcrowded quarters and/or subject to increased sleep deprivation. Different demographic background won’t change that dynamic.

If not buying what I said, then it would mean buying that a population exhibits the same or better behavior the more overcramped, more overcrowded and more sleep deprived that population becomes.

Do you really want to claim that passenger behavior remains constant or improves the more cramped, the more overcrowded and the more exhausted or otherwise stressed the population of passengers become? If so, then AA’s solution to this kind of problem is to increasingly pack people in like sardines in a tin can in the air and on the ground and exhaust them further.

I dislike the putting up of shoes/feet on chairs sofas and tables at least as much as the next lady or gentleman, but I am saying that I expect more of your “special type of hillbilly” stuff in this environment than I would have in the absence of more over-cramping, more overcrowding and more exhaustion/sleep-deprived individuals.