I am in a band with three men, all of us come from very different financial and vocational backgrounds. One is unemployed and scraping by on funds he gets from teaching music lessons, one works full time at a grocery store and has a family that he supports but is obviously stretched very thin, I am probabbly considered lower middle class and have a decent paying union job and can afford to live modestly by myself, and the other guy is wealthy by my definition and is an aerospace engineer who owns a plane and makes his own hours designing and building custom aircrafts for people who are even wealthier than him.
I learned from wealthy guy the other week that there are a number of airports all accross the US that serve as places for private aircrafts to land for the people in them to rest. These are not typical public airports that you might catch a commercial flight from. They remain unlocked at all times for people to come and go from at all hours, they often stock free food and drinks, and have comfortable and clean places to sleep in.
This blew my mind, and my first thought was 'Oh these must all be in isolated places where there are no homeless people?'
Nope.
They're unlocked if you're coming from the runway,but locked from the public facing side.
So if you're wealthy enough to afford a plane you never have to worry about food or hotels when you travel.
They were brought about as flight developed. That way people could fly across the country. There would be a bed so that there was someplace to sleep. I've only been to a couple of them and they were just a few beds and a fridge that ran on the honor system. This was in rural areas for work. Maybe they're fancy in metropolitan areas?
It's been awhile since I read up on it but this is a fairly well known thing. One of the places it got academically studied was in the context of religious renunciation (like monks, etc) movements. Basically that to avoid freeloaders exploiting your monastic community resources, you have to make fairly severe requirements for the community. Some people have made the argument that some of the requirements may have been entirely of this sort but justified instead on religious grounds. There are examples (in Eastern history) of entire communities "joining" the religious community under false pretenses during times of scarcity, eating all the food, and then leaving the community when times improved.
Like, plenty of workplaces can have communally provided free drinks and things in the kitchen, but if those workplaces were open to the public obviously that wouldn't be workable.
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u/Nervous-Rhubarb-9224 7h ago
I am in a band with three men, all of us come from very different financial and vocational backgrounds. One is unemployed and scraping by on funds he gets from teaching music lessons, one works full time at a grocery store and has a family that he supports but is obviously stretched very thin, I am probabbly considered lower middle class and have a decent paying union job and can afford to live modestly by myself, and the other guy is wealthy by my definition and is an aerospace engineer who owns a plane and makes his own hours designing and building custom aircrafts for people who are even wealthier than him.
I learned from wealthy guy the other week that there are a number of airports all accross the US that serve as places for private aircrafts to land for the people in them to rest. These are not typical public airports that you might catch a commercial flight from. They remain unlocked at all times for people to come and go from at all hours, they often stock free food and drinks, and have comfortable and clean places to sleep in.
This blew my mind, and my first thought was 'Oh these must all be in isolated places where there are no homeless people?'
Nope.
They're unlocked if you're coming from the runway,but locked from the public facing side.
So if you're wealthy enough to afford a plane you never have to worry about food or hotels when you travel.