For the sheer amusement of it I made up a bike club that would work like the US economy.
The Freinds of Capitalism Forever Mountain Bike Club
This club has access to 1000 miles of Mt bike trails and has 1000 members.
Members are listed in order of income low to high from 1-1000. Members can only ride on the trail mileage equal to their share of the clubs income, just like freedom in the USA. The members income distribution matches the IRS 2009 Stats.
The first 266 club members only have 3.3 % of the clubs members income and they are only allowed to ride on 28 of the 1000 miles of trails. As in the real economy they get less than their statistical share. These 266 get the low muddy swamps and are not allowed on dry or improved trails at all In addition these members are required to work on all the trails, except the top 158 miles which are exclusively maintained by world class trail building contractors for the ultra club members only.
The next 208 members are allowed to ride on 75 miles of trail as they have 7.9% of the club members total income, they can also ride on the 33 miles of swamp if they wish, but they mostly ride on the 75 miles that the first 266 cannot ride on. their trail are merely poorly maintained jeep tracks and log roads. These members are also required to work on all the trails except the top ultra members trails but these members are allowed to work with better tools and use machinery.
The next 180 members get to ride on some average low grade trails with 117 miles reserved for them as they have 12.1 percent of the club membership income. These members are also required to work on the trails but they also have to make reports to the upper management.
The next 217 members get to ride on 262 miles of good quality trails as they have 22.3 % of the clubs income, and all the other trails under their status. These members don't work on trails but manage the work and are required to just go to meetings and make plans and set up work markers and file reports on what got done.
The next 97 members get to ride on 219 miles of trails exclcusive to them and their superiors and these trails are in great shape, with lots of fun features and always properly drained. These members exclusive job is to oversee the work of all the other members and attned board meetings when the board calls on them.
The next 24 members get to ride on the sweetest most buffed smooth flowy trails in the forest and they get 120 miles of these exclusively, and have to share them only with the top echelon 8 riders, and of course can ride on all the other trails under their status as well. These members just go to board meetings if they feel like it, usually bribing the lower members to vote for whatever they want.
The next 6 members get an exclusive penultimate 112 miles of groomed and raked daily trails with gondola service, an exclusive club house with international sharing with other world elite bike club members and a jet plane landing field in the valley. These members write all the rules behind the scenes and never venture on the other trails, though occasionally will ride on the next echelon down trails if they need to use them for something. If necessary they have private military and secret service clear the trails if they want to go ride on the rough and wild side.
The next One member has an exclusive 18 mile bike park with secret service detail.
And the Final Bike club member has 49 miles of private bike parks, in the sweetest most remote parts cordoned off with guards and behind tall brick walls. Only illegal immigrants and high clearance security personell rained in Mt bike trail building are allowed in these areas. And the other Billionaires from around the world can ride here as well coming in to this members private exclusive jet port and fully staffed private resort. This member has lawyers pass down the club law to the lower merely ultra rich members and usually has troublesome members die in unfortunate accidents on the trails.
And all was well with the Freinds of Capitalism Forever Bike Club with 2 members having about as much excellent trail as the bottom 500 members shit hole mud pits and of course having thousands and thousands of times the amenities and luxery and this was as it should be for ever and ever as is and forever ordained by the great Free Market Church of Chicago School Economics.
Especially as of 2010 when the Clubs supreme court of Biking Jurisdictions ruled that money equals free speech.
What a cool way dude. That one Biker with all that shit and power. Wow! That's like freaking a Roman Emperor or some crap. They should have Mt Bike Gladiator rings to get rid of problem riders. You know like send a dude on a bike out on a velodrome and have tigers and lions chase him down and eat the traitor.
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