The Points Guy Founder Brian Kelly tells “Nightcap’s” Jon Sarlin how consumers can avoid paying junk hotel and airline fees. Plus, EZPR’s Ed Zitron says the ad-based model of social media is dying. And Bloomberg Commentator and author of “The Nowhere Office” Julia Hobsbawm explains why the largest 4-day work week trial ever conducted could change the future of work. To get the day’s business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.
00:00 – Welcome to "Nightcap"
00:18 – Cracking down on junk travel fees
05:13 – The new era of paid social media
10:27 – The dream of the four-day work week
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Its worth a daily laugh 😀
Now your paying them to sell your own personal and private information to the whole world. It’s got to be the dumbest idea ever for the internet and social media. You pay for your own content. That’s like paying a monthly fee for my TV that is already paid in full.
That’s like listening to someone who doesn’t know the difference between your and you’re.
@Jason Greene so wait. You don’t know the difference 😅
IMO-the onset of fees may be the demise of social media platforms when customers refuse to pay them in mass or plainly abandon altogether the social media use – be careful what you ask for. SMH!
Yes, greed @it’s best on these fees.
I’m all for the demise of social media. Especially Twitter. Since Elmo took over it’s full of right wing/Russian bots and troll.
A lot of people are actually abandoning smart phones in favor of what’s known as dumb phones (phones that don’t have full internet access and therefore no instant access to social media apps.
Facebook (aka fake fok the tiktok wannabe) and YouTube/Google are desperate for more money…..not because they need additional revenue to operate the platforms but because the ceos are greedy and simply want money for the sake of having it.
Google is going to lose money in ad revenue when people simply use adblock software to block the annoying ads from launching.
Oh, perfect! Instagram wants me to quit it (which would be for the better)!
HULD IT! GREEDY MONEY GRUBBING BILLIONAIRE WHITE BOI ZUCKERBERG AIN’T GETTING A SINGLE RED DIME FROM ME…
Dumping facebook was a godsend. And that’s saying something, given that I’m an atheist. But it all really is a waste of time.
I have instagram but only follow 10 accounts and 8 of them are comedians that I could get the same thingelsewhere, like youtube.
‘junk fees’ are the kind of things that other countries outlawed decades ago.
But in America, there’s a big segment of people that have been convinced that ‘regulation is bad’ and that everything should be wide open, that there are too many laws and that government should not be so involved in how businesses operate. And then a train derails and these same people say ‘There oughtta be a law’.
In case of emergencies if your children are not with you means that no one is really taking care of the child. It is negligent for an airline to assume they can move children under 18yrs old! They do not take responsibility for your now “unaccompanied” child!
Just a way to increase profits nothing more, they will still make those billions on selling you ads and your info to other company’s.
For 11.99/month you still have to see ads? That doesn’t make sense
We need a consumer and social media bill of rights in the US! The airlines can’t treat you like luggage, strand you at airports without a place to sleep, separate you from your children, or keep you on a plane for hours on a tarmac, then charge YOU the customer for their own errors. We need to know what the fees are up front for any purchase, no hidden fees should be allowed. We need the right to repair our own products.
We need to be in control of our own privacy settings on social media, not have our privacy sold to the highest bidder. We need to have the right to customer service on those social media sites, and we need to have the right to sue social media when they release harmful products or promote harm to people (get rid of Section 230 and replace it).
Fewer people will use those things, new platforms will take instagrams place
Old Zuckerberg has already lost the coveted teenage demographic to that tiktok crap and they’re not coming back no matter how much Zuckerberg tries to turn Facebook into a tiktok wannabe.
Exactly.
Now that you’re addicted. This is exactly why I bought all the oxygen.
They already do, it’s called “promotions”
We already pay for it with the adds and data collection. Now they want to charge us on top of that.
Not everyone wants to work 5 days a week. If companies can’t get their products out with a 4 day week then go to a 7 day week. Two separate shifts. One a 4 day and another a 3 day. Workers have less of a chance of getting burnt out. I once worked for a company that did 4 days of 10 hours per day. I loved those 3 day weekends.
What I don’t want is getting stuck part time with no set schedule from one week to the next like most fast food restaurants do. That practice aught to be illegal. If you have kids in daycare how on earth can you arrange a decent schedule for them. Our country needs a better system.
Restaurants are the WORST to work for!
When your user base has been declining the last few years and you’re becoming increasingly irrelevant and there’s a question about whether you’ll even be in business much longer, what a great idea to screw your remaining customers for services that they used to get for free!
Now that they’ve collected all your data, they’ll charge you a ransom.
Well of course, Twitter proved people would pay for a stupid checkmark, so why not?
and this is on top of selling your privacy 30 times over to corporations and scammers alike.
If platforms are charging a subscription fee for verification then it defeats the whole purpose of being verified. Verification means you have status in the social media marketplace, it’s coveted and special. If anyone can buy it then it means nothing. Exclusivity
make flying a quality experience again. I’m tired of feeling like i’m in a walmart, Or seeing all these crazy people getting violent.