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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (20 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

They're a fund raising tool for the troop, which is very transparent. Nobody is forcing you to buy them, but people love them and do so voluntarily. Where's the scam?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So much shit around bicycles is a scam because barring some major inventions like shocks for mountainbikes or maybe carbon frames it's very much a solved problem, but it doesn't fit into a capitalist economy if everybody just buys one bicycle and then occasionally parts for it to fix it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Credit cards and everything to do with the debt trap.

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