Air travel should be treated like SURGERY
Summary
A rider pitches a wild solution to the misery of air travel: just anesthetize passengers before their flight, load their unconscious bodies onto planes, and let them wake up at their destination. They'd pay $1,000 for the service. Kareem points out that's basically business class money already. The conversation veers into darker territory as the rider admits there's a major trust problem with the whole unconscious body situation, 3D scanning, assault, AI deepfakes, you name it. They acknowledge the barrier to entry would be high. Still, they're convinced that if you're stuck in economy, the surgery approach beats dealing with airports. First class though? That's worth staying awake for.
Full Transcript
So what's your take? Air travel should be treated like surgery. Just let me go to sleep in my bed, put me down, and let me wake up in Hawaii. I only agree if you're flying economy. In first class, I stay awake. And you want to go through security at the airport? I don't even want to know an airport exists. No, if I'm in business class, I'm walking through the airport feeling like a boss. I get on the plane, an anesthesiologist coming to my house, putting me in an IV, putting me down, them picking up my unconscious body, put, putting it on a flight, and then I get to wake up in New York. I never to fly from LA to New York again.
What's the most you're willing to pay? I would pay $1,000.
$1,000? Just buy yourself a business class. But here's, here's the thing though. Is that because of the risks, it would be cheaper than you would think. Not a lot of people would want to do it 'cause they're like, "What are you going to do to my unconscious body? Are you going to assault me? Are you going to body scan me, 3D scan me, and then make a video of me as an AI, you know, model doing something like—you could do a lot of stuff with an unconscious body." So I think that the barrier of entry is kind of high. 100% disagree.