Chains of Care: Toward a People’s Bicycle Politics.
The bicycle may be one of humanity’s greatest technological achievements: efficient, repairable, joyful, and nearly enough. Capitalism distorts that promise by turning innovation into market churn and access into disposability. A people’s bicycle politics refuses both the luxury race machine and the throwaway box-store bike. It asks for something better: repairable tools, honest labor, shared knowledge, durable sufficiency, and chains of care.