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Until all other short-haul airlines copy them

Like it or not, we live in a market economy with market competition. There are new airlines every year. In 2022 there was a net increase of 13 airlines in europe alone. If people want paper boarding passes, some competitor will give it to them. Always been like that in market economies, and socialists will keep fearmongering about "what one company does" like its the end of the world.

Everytime automation replaced jobs the economies created by this replacement always created new jobs that replaced the previous ones. The USA has always been on the forefront of automating away jobs and it's unemployment rates show that new jobs were always created and that there was no long-term unemployment due to automation. AI won't be any different.

Even Piers Morgan acknowledged that that "salute" was a "my heart goes out to you" and not a nazi salute, but with the latent tribalism we have in politics, I'm sure you will refuse to even consider that as a possibility. And the comparison with pol pot is just downright dumb. Elon Musk as always been pro freedom.

Your comment just shows the paroquialism of your knowledge of economics. Were the keelboat men affected personally when they lost their jobs to the steam boats? Yes. Did the benefits of the steam boats (10 times faster, can travel up and down river and carry more cargo) benefit everyone - including the keelboat men? Also yes. Economic growth will sometimes require pivoting of the economic agents' activities but they're always better off.

Just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean it will happen in the future

Say no more, let's ignore what always happened and go in the opposite way.