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Movie theaters do charge to reserve seats now (at least by me), and sports stadiums have done that forever, as far as I know.

>Ryanair threatened to make people pay for toilet usage.

Ryanair says a lot of crap as part of their advertising strategy. It is ragebait/clickbait/etc. Eitherway, it's on the government to enforce basic standards.

>At a certain point, the bean counters have to be told no.

The government should ensure minimum standards (and sufficient competition in the market). Everything else, let the customers decide what they want or do not want to pay for.



> The government should ensure minimum standards (and sufficient competition in the market). Everything else, let the customers decide what they want or do not want to pay for.

I'm pretty sure everyone agrees with this statement. The disagreement is what "minimum standards" should consist of.

Currently, the US's minimum standards include giving everybody seat belts, but not ensuring that children are seated with their parents. That, to me, is very much not the right place to draw the line.


Buyer Beware and Let The Market Decide is a terrible way to structure society.


> Movie theaters do charge to reserve seats now…

"Other people are also enshittifying" is not the argument you think it to be. (It's not the case in my area, incidentally.)

You asserted it couldn't be done. I quote:

> Obviously, seating everyone together is impossible.




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