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207 points LorenDB | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.204s | source
1. sporkland ◴[] No.41851151[source]
I hate how fetishists on certain narrow cross cutting topics (e.g. right to repair, open source, environmentalists, security) drag the conversation in such a negative direction. The biggest revolution in biking accessibility happened in the last 10 years with electrification of bicycles. Most people care about total cost of ownership. The old bicycle were 100% repairable by most people and while it's a loss to not to be able to do that anymore it won't impact many people other than the ones looking to either drop their costs to near zero or the fetishists who will scream their heads off the whole time.

It reminds me of not being able to pick a milk without getting scorn from somewhere (real milk ~ cows, oat milk ~ sugar, macadamia milk ~ env impact, soy milk ~ hormones, etc). All the while we're watering alfalfa to feed cows for beef.

Oh boy the bikes are less repairable, even though half the city dwellers could be replacing cars with electric bikes. A car has way higher repair bills and up front purchase costs not to mention the ongoing costs.