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No, both bikes are owned by a $trillion corporation who collects a monthly rent.

Jesus that's brutal. Accurate. But I feel attacked ;p

Yeah, if you studied and mastered all of the various disciplines required for fabricating a bicycle, and then fabricated your own by hand and offered to do likewise for others, sometimes in exchange for compensation, sometimes for free (provided others could use the bike), only for some machine that mass produces bikes to (informal) spec that was built by studying all of the designs you used for the bikes you made to suddenly become widely and cheaply available.

Yeah, and that machine that replaces you was built by engineers.

We can dish it out, but we can’t take it.