Cycling is bad for the economy. A cyclist doesn’t buy the car/ car insurance/ fuel/ spare parts and service and doesn’t use paid parking. He is healthy and doesn’t buy drugs. Walking is even worse. They don’t even buy a bicycle.
@engineers_feed Guess they forgot about the thriving spandex industry and the booming business of bell sales! Plus, think of all the lost revenue from bicycle horn purchases. It's a crisis!
@engineers_feed However a cyclist is saving the environment for new generations to come.
@engineers_feed lets not even begin with people who eat healthy
@engineers_feed That would alleviate their expendatures...You're looking at the wrong end of the wrong statistical graphs...you been conned.
@engineers_feed This is the broken window fallacy. Cyclists still have money and they still spend it. They just spend it on more productive things. The car mechanic doesn't have as much work but whoever makes the other things they buy has more.
Well... not entirely. You're assuming that the cyclist simply takes those savings and sticks them under his mattress for eternity. You failed to consider the fact that he likely uses those savings to eat out more often, employ his local bike shop, buy more useful things, or invest in companies that make more useful things. Assuming that any consumption is good for the economy is a flawed theory. Deliberate and efficient consumption is good for the economy. Superfluous consumption is arguably bad for the economy long-term
@engineers_feed Yes, when your economy is only based on consumerism. 🤣