Why Airlines Collude To Make Flying As Miserable As Possible. Few experiences are as universal to Americans as the shared degradation and misery of flying on our nation's air carriers.
These corporate behemoths have somehow managed to wrap up everything wrong with this country and present it to us as a package deal: income inequality, corporate indifference, dwindling services, automation and skyrocketing prices all combined to make flying a tortuous chore rather than a pleasure, particularly in the last ten years. It's no different than fiscal austerity, really--just a calculated effort to push the limits of greed for a tiny minority to the point where Americans won't tolerate any more, then convincing us that such a drastically diminished quality of life is the "new normal. " And Americans continue to suffer it, because in most cases they feel they have to. For many, travel is a necessity for their livelihood. For others with scattered families travel is the only way to maintain personal connections. French expressions you won't learn at school.
Schlep Blindness. January 2012 There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses.
One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task. No one likes schleps, but hackers especially dislike them. One of the many things we do at Y Combinator is teach hackers about the inevitability of schleps. The most dangerous thing about our dislike of schleps is that much of it is unconscious. The phenomenon isn't limited to startups. The most striking example I know of schlep blindness is Stripe, or rather Stripe's idea. Probably no one who applied to Y Combinator to work on a recipe site began by asking "should we fix payments, or build a recipe site? " That scariness makes ambitious ideas doubly valuable.
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