Searching for the economy through Nevada lens

The airlines are an interesting case and point. They pretend they give you perks - treat you like a king; as they nickle and dime you every step of the way and every other moment treat you like cattle forcing them to check yourself in, going through the screening and having fluids or aerosols thrown out because they forgot to pack it. At the same time they are pretending to treat them like kings. They have things like special lounges for executives and other bullshit faux luxury. The airlines charge for extra leg room, ear phones, blankets, too heavy bags, too many bags (two as people are expected to fly without luggage) pillows, and food. You can purchase boxes of miniature food for six dollars that are less than what they use to give their passengers for free, only not as good. All are pre-packaged and lilliputian small.

Once we landed we find that the hotels are like this too. We have to pay for the gym, the spa, the Internet. They put you in the high rollers club as they pick your pocket. The American buy into this illusion as they shovel money at these companies to pretend that they're more than what they are. At the same time they complain about having to pay taxes that are supposedly for the betterment of society as a whole. There is still this mentality of striking it rich and becoming one of the idle rich. Most of them won't even coming close to it but we support overpaying for things as being a sign that we can buy class like we do everything else.

The sea of illegals, or not so illegal workers that make these places function operate jusbeneath the surface. They are like worker bees as the Americans continue to have an inflated opinion of themselves as their jobs disappear and the closer their economic situations grow to the worker bees the more they pretend those people don't exist. They are the backboned that make this life possible.

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