The Class System
Dr. X post this from his Blackberry at Phoenix Airport:
"Class used to be a fairly simple thing, but not longer. Since everyone wants to be high class, the airlines have accomodated with frequent flyer classifications that simultaneously disavow and reinforce proletarian world views:
"It goes a little like this...
"Elite
"Executive Elite
"Super Executive Elite
"Super Executive Prestige
"Super Executive Prestige Gold
"Super Executive Prestige Platinum
"Super Executive Prestige Diamond
"Black Card (unadvertised)
"First Class"
posted by Latouche at Large at 5:55 PM
4 Comments:
How about an upgrade to "First Up Against the Wall When the Revolution Comes?"
Dr. X posts this from an enormous Native American casino:
"I knew a Hungarian guy in business school. Soros paid for him to go, right after the Berlin Wall fell. He said: 'In a revolution, the same people win as always win: the weasels.' "
Franklin? Jefferson? Washington? Vaclev Havel?
Replace "win" with "come out ahead" and I'll endorse the previous statement.
As for the different airline classes, all I know is I seem to forever be relegated to "veal calves get treated better than this" class.
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