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The Hidden Rules of Ownership with Michael Heller

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Reclining on a Red Eye Flight

Reclining takes a precedence over being able to work on your laptop. It's pretty, ah, it's pretty frustrating that the airline would have a back seat that couldn't recline. Aso as a gray observation. Bara says thits never used to be aalli'm sill a coupl of years ago, aleast in the American market.

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Yet, if i introspect about that situation, i think i' i'd answer the question differently, about who has the right to to recline? Verses a ye. Verses block the person ahead of them from reclining. Yes, well, if it's, if it's two a m if it's a red eye flight, you know that the social norms say, everyone needs some sleep, everyone's got a recline. Reclining takes a precedence over being able to work on your laptop, actually working on your laptop, you know, shining a bright light on everyone around you would be quite the fo pa. And a red eye. But then if it's, you know, a just a quick hop, you know, during the day, most people don't need sleep at that time, unless they're flying in from a different time zone, catching a connecting flight. So, yes, i, i say time of day is important to me, but that's kind of built around, i guess, the needs of the average person, or thea, the sort of social norms around it. It's pretty, ah, it's pretty frustrating that the airline would have a back seat that couldn't recline, because implicitly, if it's wrong to squish that guy, the person right ahead of them can't recline, which means the person ahead of them can't, which means the person ahead of them can't all the way to the front. So that that's, that seems to create a lot of conflict that could be solved with just a ear, just putting in one less seat. Aso
Speaker 1
as a gray observation. Bara, and here's her tas happen thits never used to be aalli'm sill a coupl of years ago, aleast in the american market. And you may have more red eyes fing from australia.

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