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or you could just tax the rich, but what do i know, right?

Also the whole point of this stuff - from the brands' perspectives anyway - is not to have a race winner. It's to sell bikes. ALL this stuff is done so companies can sell bikes. If Specialized could push ONE rider off a cliff to their deaths but would then sell every bike they could make for the next 10 years, they'd start with Loic because he's the most expensive rider...and probably throw Finn off, too, just in case they found a loophole and sacrificing a second rider gives them an extra 10 years of sales. Jackson doing well at...

Someone give Sven Martin the budget to deploy 6 squids across the EDR race course / weekend and produce a mixed media slideshow like the old Vital shows and Enduro coverage would be great again.

I am admittedly a bit of a lefty socialist but that makes him sound like a right ruthless b******

"a small group of us want to make a bunch of money, so we hijacked the sport you all love and now really need to make huge changes to make it happen. we really don't care what you think."

Your single anecdotal experience w a union does not counter the weight of evidence. The slopestyle riders are collectively organizing to negotiate their compensation. That makes them, you guessed it, a union. I'm not here to convince you unions are good for riders, I am here to support the riders and their collective bargaining.

Good God. Your TLDR fails on ever level. It isn't even succinct. Here is how you do a TLDR. TLDR, unions raise wages in every industry and they do so by threatening to withhold labor, or withholding it and demonstrating the value of their labor in its absence. The weight of evidence in the economic field is clear on this. Unions raise wages. https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/130/631/1898/5824627?login=false

The point is you don't do it alone numbnuts. You negotiate as a block to reduce the asymmetry of power between employees and employers. And this action came after months of negotiation, it didn't happen overnight. Go look at every industry where there are unions and take note that the union members are better paid and compensated than their non union counterparts. If you like being underpaid, cool, keep sucking up that capitalist kool-aid, but I am proud of the riders for standing up for themselves and pushing their employer for better pay and conditions.

Compensation is negotiation between employers and employees. Employees banding together to negotiate for better compensation is "how markets work", corporate bootlicker.

Fuck all these corporate apologist telling riders they should be greatful for what they get. That they arent irreplacable. That they arent worth more. Fuck all that noise. Get paid lads. Godspeed.

The bike world’s lust for 3d printing is hilarious to me.

did you smoke the window insulation again?

Nah dude. It just isn't funny. Neither the original post or your response. Saying as much isn't being "woke", and the need to bring up being anti-"woke" every time the majority of reasonable people deem something inane is the most unintentionally ironic "snowflake" behavior. I know you don't want to be a snowflake. Back to rumors please. Kade to join Deathgrip on the ultimate free-racer squad.

I'd like to make a t-shirt of guys in vans Loic has lost to and sell it for cost to World Cup fans.