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534. Air Travel Is a Miracle. Why Do We Hate It?

Freakonomics Radio

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I Hate Flying

Meg Rossin sums it up pretty well, doesn't she? But I'm still curious why she hates it so much. Is jet lag really so terrible? Are the tiny seats so tiny? Some of this may go back to the fact that flying in an airplane is an unnatural human activity and unnatural settings can make us anxious. The first one is what psychologists call reactants. That's what happens when you are threatened with a loss to a freedom and when you're flying that happens every few minutes.

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