In January 2022, Lufthansa admitted it had operated over 18,000 empty flights to keep airport slots during the pandemic.

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Welcome to Earth, where trade is the main practice that everyone is a follower of, willingly or not. Where humans care mostly, if not entirely, about trade and how to maximize their advantage.

How can we get ourselves out of this shit, unless we start by understanding what the shit is made of!?

First: understand the problem. TRADE. The fact that we've built a society where you cannot survive unless you trade this for that. Once we understand this, hopefully we can tackle it. Give people a way to have a decent life, access to at least their basic needs as trade-free, and then try to replace more and more trade-based services (like say transportation) with trade-free alternatives.

Volunteers plus trade-free goods/services can create more of them, replicating over time and replacing the cancerous trade-based practices.

#TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #money #corruption #airlines

European carriers are flying thousands of near-empty planes this winter just to keep their airport slots

Airlines in the EU have complained that other regions and continents are not imposing such requirements.

^{Natasha Turak (CNBC)}