matttrandom

This is perhaps the most sensible and economically correct post I have ever read on Pinkbike. No disrespect to other regular posters on the forum, but most riders fail to fundamentally understand the concept of surplus value and its relation to the labour theory of value. I read Das Kapital cover to cover and I still often struggle with the finer points of it, so I am sympathetic to some folks failing to get their heads around it. I respect the fact that for most mountain bikers, classical and neo-liberal economics and the concurrent right wing political ideologies that often go with those economic viewpoints, are very very popular on the scene. However there are still a small minority of us at the fringes of mountain biking with progressive and egalitarian viewpoints and it looks like you have read Das Kapital, or at least have a working knowledge of it and willing to make a point on a forum that may well be very hostile to this kind of economic theory, so massive respect to you, sir, for doing so.