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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Pieter,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, unpack this a little. Take it beyond irony. See <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on_ecology_and_development">this piece that I am constantly flogging on friam. Am I flogging a dead horse or am I flogging you WITH a dead horse.</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I ask this, as I am unwrapping a package of razor blades from amazon. Retail cost 8 bucks; delivered to me, in my hand, in under 24 hours, for 5, saving ME an hour of travel, a gallon of gasoline, 5 minutes of chit-chat with the gormless clerk at CVS, and three dollars. Do we applaud Amazon or do we boycott it? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rage, rage against the dying of the light.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>N<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pieter Steenekamp<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 7, 2021 5:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Bike is the slow death of the planet<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I don't know who wrote this originally, I got it on social media:<br><br>"Bike is the slow death of the planet ".<br>A banker made economists think this when he said: ′′ A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he doesn't buy cars or borrow money to buy. He doesn't pay insurance policies Doesn't buy fuel, doesn't pay to take the car to revision and repairs needed. Does not use paid parking. It doesn't cause major accidents. Does not require multi lane highways. He doesn't become obese<br>Healthy people are not necessary or useful to the economy. They don't buy medicine. They don't go to hospitals or doctors. They add nothing to the country's GDP.<br>On the contrary, each new McDonald's store creates at least 30 jobs, actually 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 diet experts and nutritionists, obviously as well as the people who work in the store itself ".<br><br>Choose carefully: a bike or a Mc Donald? Worth thinking about<br><br>PS: walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy a bike!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>