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Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating (www.cnbc.com)

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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

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[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (8 children)

"Private" doesn't mean "small". It means "privately owned", which means by a rich person.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, maybe it was a bad example, because in some very specific scenario, it can work. My point was that treating a symptom won't cure the underlying disease. Just like as long as there are rich people, trying to take away their planes won't work.

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