The journey is so much more appreciable when self-powered.
It is profound - to take the power from a foreign source, at *incredible* peril, and use it exclusively to transport oneself over any distance beyond the confines of "home". The ills of this demand grow external as well as internal...
We can clearly see the suffering brought by the sedentary lifestyle, we can clearly see how much of this valuable journey (life...) people are missing by demanding (at any cost) the express route from A to B