It's generally easier for the layperson to pay a gym membership than it is to have the upfront cost of a barbell set and coordinating a schedule with their neighbor who owns a treadmill.
I don't want to sound too pro-corporate, I just don't want to fault others when they fall for the veneer of a "cohesive product." It takes a lot of work to organize a community project and why it's so special when they do come together.
Alimony Tony over here can afford it. He can throw a stupid amount of money at any woman he knocks up and then whine publicly when she starts dating a new person.
It is no choice between someone who disappoints me in their responses on this issue, and someone who openly wonders if sending a nuclear warhead into a hurricane a couple hundred miles offshore will lead to a positive result. And of course that was with where his mental state was at over 4 years ago.
I can't believe it's taken this long. I get disappointed when microblogmeme jpegs don't have 2 @ symbols in them.