@CiaraNi

well, personally I'm @ 25 years flight-free now. never felt like a sacrifice at all, more like a liberation actually.

but thats an outsider-position. Not like totally rare, but not mainstream either.

so the question would theoretically be: "why are people not acting in their self-interest ?"

but whatever a scientific answer to that might be, I have made up my mind - they CAN'T. Usually most people are generally unable to anticipate or even see the consequences to their actions.

@CiaraNi

What you are describing is " #PathDependency ".

And billionaires are just part of the path. As are people cheering for combustion engines or the newest electric car.

This is the way inequal human societies just function - Persistence & Tradition is valued over everything else.

And when the powerful AND a great part of the powerless want the same thing - #stability - then survival becomes an afterthought.