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by idontwantthis 33 days ago
> Over the past two decades, airlines have stopped using it as a passenger plane and replaced it with smaller aircraft that are more efficient, but far less majestic and memorable. The 747 was once a symbol of American might, invention, progress, and populism. Now it embodies the decline of all of those values.

Can some explain why replacing it with more efficient, and still American, jets is somehow a negative for American might, progress, and invention?