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Kind of interesting to get insight into how much of a handicap color blindness is via the revealed preference of whether you'd she'll out $X for them. A different article, David Pogue:

"The highlight came on Day 4 of my tests, when my kids discovered a rainbow arcing across the sky...

Then I put on the glasses. Unbelievable! ... I don’t mind admitting, I felt a surge of emotion. It was like a peek into a world I knew existed, but had never been allowed to see...

So would I pay $600 for these glasses?

The truth is, I don’t consider colorblindness much of a handicap..."

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/pogue/2013/08/15/glasses-tha...



To an extent that's true. But as a counterexample look at how certain communities of deaf people get... very strange about the condition and would even reject a free fix.


To be fair though a huge difference is that the deaf community is bound together by a common language. Language is hugely important in human social groups. A "free fix" for members of this community comes at the cost of the eventual annihilation of their shared language. This is why you typically don't see the same reaction from medical advancements in vision from the blind community, whose impairment has no effect whatsoever on their primary language (and just to be clear Braille is simply a character mapping to the readers native language while sign languages such as ASL are actually distinct languages).




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