| ▲ | Barrin92 2 days ago | |
>You can use a wheelchair to get everywhere, but your leg muscles will start to wither I don't know if they still exists but there was a (Dutch, I think) company that makes non-electric lifts and tools for elderly people at home that require muscle effort from the people using them. Purely augmentative tools that don't work without input. And that is how it needs to be. Framing this as choice is already wrong. Any tool that is agnostic or conducive to forfeiting agency will be used in wrong ways. It's not enough to make the healthy part optional, your brain will not be in the driver seat given how human beings work. People in Japan are slim with no spending while people in the US remain obese while spending billions exactly because to the Japanese this isn't a choice, it's one the environment makes for them. If you rely on people "keeping themselves honest" you've already lost. | ||
| ▲ | daveguy 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
I believe you are thinking of the Vertiwalk lift: | ||