I just read a LinkedIn post by some guy with a ton of likes who’s waging an absurd battle over the Ryanair “scandal” — they’re forcing you to install their app for check-in because they won’t accept paper tickets anymore.
Setting aside that these first world problems crack me up (almost as much as GDPR and the attached bottle caps), and that I thank heaven a company finally figured out that many of us haven’t had a printer at home for years, there’s a fundamental problem of priority and dissociation from reality.
I know I take this to the extreme and always start from first principles, ignoring what people say, but it seems to me we’ve reached stratospheric levels here:
You are LITERALLY putting your life in the hands of a private company that shoots you at 800-900 km/h at 9-10 km altitude in an environment that wants to kill you. You’ve given them every microscopic piece of information about yourself. You’ve passed through 3 security gates. They’ve scanned your pubic hair...
AND YOUR PROBLEM IS THE TICKET ON YOUR SMARTPHONE?
In a world where there are 2 smartphones per person even in the most remote sub-Saharan country?
Guys, are you okay?
