Snowboards make my life better because I don't use them.

See how these two don't actually have both of their feet connected to the board? This makes for added value for those 'old school' skiing luddites like me who stick to two planks.

Let me explain: Each time these guys get on and off a ski lift they must unclip or re-clip (respectively) their feet to their snowboard - this takes a bit of awkward shuffling and reasonable amount of time. The latter is most important because the time spent stuffing around with bindings is not time spent on the actual slope. In an empirical exeriment on a short run I was able to fit in twice the number of runs because I didn't have to stuff around. Given that everybody pays the same price for lift tickets it means that snowboarders are subsidising skiers both in terms of slope time and number of runs, by as much as 50%. Everyone else should snowboard.