As multinational corporations have expanded the variety of fees, charges, and incidental methods for slipping their fingers into your pockets, maybe you’ve naively thought that a few common courtesies would remain beyond their reach. Perhaps you’ve assured yourself that no company with a firm grasp on reality would cross certain boundaries and that a few simple courtesies would continue to be offered free of charge.
Then again, perhaps we’ll soon reach the point of no return, where every human act — even taking a whiz if you’ve had a little too much to drink — will become directly subject to some minor transaction fee.
Think I’m exaggerating? Check out Ryanair’s potential plan [1] to charge European customers a pound or so to use the loo. Granted, cities like New York have already employed a similar strategy [2]. But, let’s keep in mind that none of the five boroughs are enclosed spaces thousands of feet in the air.
Maybe, after all, those companies don’t have such a firm grasp on reality. Too bad there’s not a Bethlem Royal Hospital [3] for corporations.
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