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@Sebby
I sincerely empathize with you and wish you the best.
My point regarding accessibility is however broader in that I do not subscribe to the premise that accessibility is a benefit we should enjoy or negotiate depending on our ability or will to work.
I shall stress that it isn't an argument you have put forth,
but very often this implication is lurking in the debat beneath the surface. -- that blind people should prove themselves in order to 'deserve' full accessibility.
But I think this logic is wrong because it does not recognize that we in most areas of live are already at a disadvantage and that we even in social settings are often not treated fairly by which is meant according to the moral standards proclaimed as the golden rule by society.
In addition, the problem with arguing that blind persons can just work in order to earn money is that not all are created equal intellectually, emotionally o r brought up in the same socioeconomic environment.
What if you by nature are more disposed to handywork, music or happen to be an introvert with no interest or desire for technology, books or a higher education?
Should your ability to use a computer, or mobile independence be limited because you can't or won't earn enough to pay a premium price for accessibility?
I don't think so.
Fortunately I have had the privilege of growing up not in the UK or US but in a socialist Scandinavian welfare state.
There is a lot of good to say in favor of the UK and the US and some of your blind organizations are doing great work, but when it comes to caring for our basic economic needs, I'll take my own socialist statist welfare state over any experimentation.
Not to say, that I like the Blind Society in my own country.
They are pursuing the same stupid agenda as most other blindness organizations.
- Visually impa ired should work, be included and not be entitled to an absolute right to pension.
Of course, most of the higher fatcats are living off benefits themselves.
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