Starbucks says Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’ head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet

    • Farid
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      03 months ago

      I’m sure that private (meaning small) jets can have valid use cases, it’s the abuse by the rich that is the problem.

      • @[email protected]
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        03 months ago

        “Private” doesn’t mean “small”. It means “privately owned”, which means by a rich person.

        • Farid
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          03 months ago

          Even if we are talking about specifically jets that are owned privately, they could have legit use cases. It’s the abuse that is the issue. I agree with the whole “eat the rich” sentiment, but that’s a separate issue. In the system where rich people exist, the problem is abuse.

          • @[email protected]
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            03 months ago

            Legit use cases… Make A Wish comes to mind, but maybe that’d be a corporate jet or not a traditionally-private jet.

            Any exemptions for sports teams or anything? VIPs whose lives are at risk through no real fault of their own…

            • @[email protected]
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              03 months ago

              What you’re describing are use cases for charter flights - renting an aircraft for a specific, temporary purpose, usually from a company specialising in such flights - they own or lease the aircraft and employ the flight crew and maintenance staff.

          • @[email protected]
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            03 months ago

            I vote for we start destroying the private jets without reservation and if we encounter a legitimate use case we’ll deal with it at that time.

            • Farid
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              03 months ago

              But that won’t solve anything. That’s like treating diabetes by drinking diet soda.

              • @[email protected]
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                That worked for me, that and sugar free Gatorade. Took me down from 8.3 to 4.5 without insuline. That being said, I’m an anomaly in that I don’t eat much processed food or bread. Just a really bad pop addiction.

    • @[email protected]
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      03 months ago

      There are legitimate reasons for private jets to exist, though the list is admittedly small.

      The ability to transport lifesaving medications and things like organs long distances as fast as possible comes to mind.

      There isn’t much reason for individuals to travel on private jets in non emergency scenarios though

      • @[email protected]
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        03 months ago

        Transporting organs doesn’t happen on Private Jets, helicopters and courier craft typically do the job. It’s also now well within the possibility for medium sized drones to be able to rapdily move something the size of an organ container reliably long distance, faster and more efficient than a jet can load, fuel, taxi, land and unload.

        Private Jets are just luxury items of the rich, and are the carbon equivalent of burning down small forests or power a small town with coal burning. There is nothing they do that can’t be done more efficiently by a drone or helicopter for a fraction of the emissions.

        • @[email protected]
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          03 months ago

          What helicopters and drones are flying over the ocean, across Europe, Africa and North America?

          And what is a ‘courier craft’ do you mean a private airplane?

          Private != Billionaire owned, it means a privately owned plane that flies general aviation (non FAR 121)

          Transferring organs absolutely happens in private jets.

          I think you might just not know what the term ‘private jet’ means.