if eating out becomes unafforadble, many jobs and countless hours of leisure will be lost. No one complains about making flying affordable with billions of dollar in aviation subsidies, from R&D, Airport and related infrastructure maintenance, to straight-out bailouts.
I am not making a case against affordable aviation, but rather giving an example of the fact that many aspects of society is simply not directly-profitable but necessary for a healthy economy and community.
The correct solution in that case would be to give people cash, so that the subsidy is properly accounted for, otherwise it will be lost to corruption via various accounting tricks and games that politicians and vendors can play, and taxpayers will never get a true picture of their government (as is the situation now). See defined benefit pension benefits in lieu of cash pay.
I am not making a case against affordable aviation, but rather giving an example of the fact that many aspects of society is simply not directly-profitable but necessary for a healthy economy and community.