If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you had an anti-business, Communist streak. Surely you don’t think that businessmen travel for the sole purpose of delivering bribes!
Suppose you are buying a chemicals from a factory abroad. You do a site survey. Suppose a foreign firm has purchased your products, and you and your engineers have to monitor their deployment, or perhaps debug some glitches which appeared as soon as the products were launched. Suppose...
There are more cases where travel is necessary than when it is not. Your suggestion that travel is limited to diamond brokers and bagmen is just poorly reasoned.
I forgot about computer programming ... but still ... how many people really, really NEED to travel to accomplish business?
You’d be surprised at the nationwide business tele-conferencing I have done in the past few years from a local office. The cameras enable you to scan blue prints or products in fine detail.
Commercial flying is something I don’t do anymore. Occasionally, I’ll charter but nothing commercial where I’m a insulted by TSA staff and procedures.