The problem is that you are working within the narrow parameters of unsustainable never-ending growth Capitalist economic framework.
Why should Merlin's aim be to charge the maximum they can? Why shouldn't it be to deliver the best experience to all of it's guests and deliver a decent wage to it's employees at a price that allows them to continue operating at a certain level? Do away with massive corporate wages and bonuses and wasteful spending at the top. That money should be invested into the buisness or more evenly distributed between the workers. We need to replace the current corporate shareholder ownership model with a system where buisnesses are owned by their employees who democratically vote in the company's board, ensuring that the interests of poor people are put at the centre of buisness practice.
If your aim is to continually grow profit until there are physically no more resources on the planet, like a complete psychopath (or as we call them in our society, 'buisness leaders') then yes, you do have to adhere to a model that offers less to those who cannot afford to pay more. It doesn't however have to be that way. There are other economic systems that we are not allowed to even contemplate by our society, which is run by millionaires in the interest of millionaires.
Instead we should be looking towards a people centric economy, not a money centric one. We only get to live once, and I don't see why we should live significantly inferior existences to those lucky enough to be wealthy.
I do of course realise that expecting a theme park to lead the way on this is absurd, hence why my original post was written in a way thats meant to be self-satirising. Although that doesn't mean Alton Towers' excessively unfair practices cannot be legitmately criticised.
Why should Merlin's aim be to charge the maximum they can? Why shouldn't it be to deliver the best experience to all of it's guests and deliver a decent wage to it's employees at a price that allows them to continue operating at a certain level? Do away with massive corporate wages and bonuses and wasteful spending at the top. That money should be invested into the buisness or more evenly distributed between the workers. We need to replace the current corporate shareholder ownership model with a system where buisnesses are owned by their employees who democratically vote in the company's board, ensuring that the interests of poor people are put at the centre of buisness practice.
If your aim is to continually grow profit until there are physically no more resources on the planet, like a complete psychopath (or as we call them in our society, 'buisness leaders') then yes, you do have to adhere to a model that offers less to those who cannot afford to pay more. It doesn't however have to be that way. There are other economic systems that we are not allowed to even contemplate by our society, which is run by millionaires in the interest of millionaires.
Instead we should be looking towards a people centric economy, not a money centric one. We only get to live once, and I don't see why we should live significantly inferior existences to those lucky enough to be wealthy.
I do of course realise that expecting a theme park to lead the way on this is absurd, hence why my original post was written in a way thats meant to be self-satirising. Although that doesn't mean Alton Towers' excessively unfair practices cannot be legitmately criticised.
