If you are willing to pay the old premium prices, you can buy first class tickets, and get an as good or better experience as the old tickets.
If you have a way to buy a first class ticket and bypass the TSA, I’d like to know about it.
Average quality is way up and has been going up steadily except for a blip when we got way too many superhero movies crowding things out, but we’ve recovered from that.
I would call this evidence of quality decreasing. Superhero movies have gone down in quality, which is why people don’t watch so many of them. People who hate superheroes anyway tend to be aghast at the idea that superhero movies can vary in quality, but that’s what you are seeing.
I’d also point out that heavy woke influence has made movies and TV worse. There’s a discussion on ACX right now about movies that can’t be made any more. And Disney has run Marvel and Star Wars into the ground because of woke.
And ten years ago I could watch multiple new science fiction television shows with only basic cable. I can’t do this any more because streaming services have fragmented the market.
“Best information” ignores slop taking over the Internet and enshittification of just about every online services. “Best cars” ignores not only touchscreens, but always on Internet spyware in cars now that the technology allows it. Even most phones no longer have 35mm connections or SD slots. Video games have worse spyware and anticheat malware, and have to be constantly patched online. And game consoles have peaked already; compare the PS5 exclusives to the PS4. (Many video games are also subject to woke.)
If you have a way to buy a first class ticket and bypass the TSA, I’d like to know about it.
I would call this evidence of quality decreasing. Superhero movies have gone down in quality, which is why people don’t watch so many of them. People who hate superheroes anyway tend to be aghast at the idea that superhero movies can vary in quality, but that’s what you are seeing.
I’d also point out that heavy woke influence has made movies and TV worse. There’s a discussion on ACX right now about movies that can’t be made any more. And Disney has run Marvel and Star Wars into the ground because of woke.
And ten years ago I could watch multiple new science fiction television shows with only basic cable. I can’t do this any more because streaming services have fragmented the market.
“Best information” ignores slop taking over the Internet and enshittification of just about every online services. “Best cars” ignores not only touchscreens, but always on Internet spyware in cars now that the technology allows it. Even most phones no longer have 35mm connections or SD slots. Video games have worse spyware and anticheat malware, and have to be constantly patched online. And game consoles have peaked already; compare the PS5 exclusives to the PS4. (Many video games are also subject to woke.)