Denmark to introduce "green tax" on plane tickets
Little by little, deliberately, tightening the peasants' belts
Enough of those peasants outrageously taking air travel for granted and flying back and forth like it’s 1999! It’s time to get the peasants back to the good old feudal days. It’s time to squeeze them not so gently—here and there—until they forget what it felt like to go about their lives before the glorious great reset.
The post-2001 TSA boots-off-n-strip thing was great, no doubt. It served its purpose to humiliate the previously relaxed and entitled folks. But nothing works better than pricing the peasants out of their previously “normal” desires. Flying places? Chocolate? Eggs? Meat? Driving? Uninterrupted electricity? Haha. Dream on. Go earn enough to own a private jet, and then we’ll talk.
And by the way—I am serious now—it’s true that the post-industrial-revolution business model of everything has been a glamorous act of stealing borrowing from the future. It’s true in many ways. And one can even argue that the lower end of the Danish tax is …
