Qasim Rashid, Esq.Dec 27, 2022

Short rant.

Southwest Air has cancelled ~70% of its flights in an epic meltdown this holiday season.

Remember, Southwest took $3.7B in federal aid from 2020-21.

It’s CEO got a pay raise to a $9.1M package in 2022.

Yet Southwest employees are working 16 hour shifts & threatened w/termination if they refuse overtime or call in sick.

Socialism for the wealthy. Capitalism for workers.

Stop trusting billionaires. Start holding them accountable. And start protecting workers.

End Rant.

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Since deregulation during the Reagan Administration, the airline industry has operated as an oligopolistic monopoly. Corporate executives, such as the ones at Southwest Airlines, have immensely profited from federal subsidies and aggressive lobbying to Congress to protect deregulation. Major airlines no longer allow unions that used to protect wages and employment of airline employees. Four decades of deregulation have created the crisis about which you and everyone rants.

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Now that the professional caste of lawyers, doctors, and such feel the economic squeeze from profiteering oligopolistic monopolies such as the airline industry, many lament on social media about how they now share the same socioeconomic status as commoners.