Travel Is The Very Essence of Life

Businesses are profit driven, so they never attempt to make their fuel any cheaper. They also completely monopolize the industry of air travel. Think about it- in the old days, you could own your own airplane. You could fly around in a two level wooden plane. These days, you can't own your own airplane. There are too many restrictions. If airplanes were really meant for cheap travel, you should be able to go out and buy one. But you can't- you have to fly on one. Why aren't there just airplanes that you can use like a car? I went to an airplane museum, and I saw an airplane that was like a car, for the average family. I hope it's released commercially soon, and the big airline monopolies are broken. I should be able to have an airplane if I want to. Those two videos I posted aren't mine, I just thought they might give a good impression of how I see things. I'm surprised that the guy who made those two videos thinks the way I do, but both of those videos are good indicators of just how annoying air travel can be. The first one is better, and more philosophically challenging. It compares archaic air travel to modern air travel, which is a good way of looking at it. The second one is worse, but he explains why every problem he brings up is a tired cliche in the description: "I couldn't come up with too many, since I'm too poor to fly anywhere and I've never been on an airplane". That's identifiable, for me, anyway. Then he goes onto an anecdote about why all the buildings in Denver are short. The two videos do have a very limited number of views, but that's not because they're bad. It's because YouTube's algorithm does not show them on a regular basis. They don't have any views, how do you expect them to attain more views? Anyhoo, the way he puts it forth is darn sophisticated. The majority of my argument revolves around travel via air around the United States because there aren't too many other ways to travel, when you think about it, and the United States is a very big country with lots to do inside it. Air travel has completely dominated all other forms of travel. There are fewer train lines, fewer cruise ships, fewer highways. All other modes of transportation are gradually being demolished by the trillion dollar industry of airplanes. I like the concept of traveling by train, but trains are going extinct like dinosaurs because the fat capitalists are making more money on flights than on trains. In fact, we could devise a whole new method of transportation, one that goes a hundred miles an hour and doesn't take any fossil fuels to power, but we don't try to invent anything cool like that, because it's easier to let the airlines do all the work and end all diversity in travel, forever. It's nice that you've gone to China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Turkey, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Macau. It all just goes to show how much cash you have to burn. Your interpretations of travel are influenced by how much money you have to spend on travel. That's a simple principle. I'm sure watching movies and stuff isn't as good as real travel, but it's a heck of a lot cheaper. I'd rather pay $5 to rent a DVD about China than pay $1,000 to GO to China. That's just simple logic. and airlines will lose customers soon if they don't try to appeal to some poor people. They could figure out how to power their planes using nothing but water, for gosh sakes. I mean, they could invent some sort of mechanism that just boils water and makes the plane go up. There's lots of options here, which would make flying a lot cheaper. Travel by car is ok, but cars these days don't come cheap, and you're forced to pay insurance every month. I think it's stupid that you HAVE to pay insurance. That shouldn't be mandatory, it should be a choice depending on how confident a person is as a driver. Also, you have to spend two months just learning how to use the darn thing. I'd prefer a mode of travel I could just get onto and go. I don't fancy the idea of zooming around in a big hunk of metal that could kill me at any moment. That's just not appealing. One other thing- they're a lot slower than airplanes. It took two days to get to Casper, Wyoming and watch the eclipse- and in an airplane it would take about half the time. But airplanes cost about five times more. Cars are slow and if you want to head to New York from California in one- well, you'd go nuts halfway there. Nobody would be willing to travel by foot- that's insane. There are barely any bus lines that travel all around the country, and they're pretty expensive. Trains, like I said, are becoming a thing of the past. Boats are only practical if you live near an ocean. Nobody uses horses to get around anymore. That little paragraph about poor people being deprived of the essence of life was only meant to emphasize just how ridiculous the title of this debate is. I could understand you maybe calling travel "A fun little Hobby" or "A way to see other cultures". But you can't define it as the very "essence of life". That's ridiculous. There are better things to life, I'm sure. And you might claim that your title doesn't infer that people can't function without moving around, but the title sure sounds like that. When I first saw your title, I was reminded of this scene, from The Dark Crystal: It just sounds like that. If travel really was the essence of life, people could not stay in one place or they would die. All I'm saying is that the title is too frickin' extreme. Also- there are some cheap hotels, but they have cockroaches and stuff. Everything in a big city costs. Travel is a hassle. Going from home to work and back is travel, but it isn't nice. There are hobos on the bus, sometimes you miss your stop, it's crowded, there's bubble gum on the floor and vomit and the seats are hard, and you have to cope with heavy traffic and the buses sometimes take an hour to arrive even in heavy weather. Even if you use your car, there's still lots of traffic. The trip is too short to enjoy but too long to bear. It doesn't depend on whether you like your job or not- even if your job is great, the commute can suck. You say that the types of travel are infinite- give me a list of ways you could reach New York for under $50. I await your next argument.