I guess it depends, I see a lot of places with escalators and regular stairs were people usually go up on the escalator but use whichever one is closer or has fewer people on it to go down just out of laziness/comfort.

An escalator lifts more people up than it lets down. Stop letting people walk all over you. Keep moving forward.

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