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Some Misunderstanding

So, I'm a pretty smart guy.   (Oh boy, here we go….)   Oh stop. I am and you know it. I've been the beneficiary of: a good education, from kindergarten on up through my masters and doctorate degrees; nearly twenty years of occupational education and experience; and a helluva lot more life experience than for which I desire to claim ownership. So, yeah, I'm a pretty smart guy.   (*sigh* Fiiiiiiine. We'll ask – so?)   So… Even though I'm a pretty smart guy, there are just some things I will never understand. Take, for example, the recent debacle on a United Airlines flight wherein the airline overbooked a flight by four and demanded that four passengers, paying passengers, give up their seats for four United employees who needed to get to their destination in time for their next assignment. There is so much with this I don't understand. First: If the plane was already full why did you overbook in the first place? I get that the air