Able-bodieds, quickly, WITHOUT GOOGLING FIRST, how much do you think manual wheelchairs cost? The ugly, non-customized, uncomfortable, hand-handled ones you see at the ER that suck for constant use but that the poorest of disabled people have to be content with, and only if they don't need wheelchairs because of fatigue to begin with, since them being manual kind of defeats the purpose in those cases.
Now google it. Then google the prices of motorized ones. Then try to imagine how much the customized ones (for people who're fatter, for people with particular NEEDS and REQUIREMENTS, etc) must cost.
Then try to not feel a little Something over airlines destroying about 30 mobility aids A DAY and how they don't even pay back for the damages most of the time, for people who often are already incapable of working and who are on very limited benefits. People who, as we learned recently, can DIE from having their wheelchairs damaged.
Try to not be at least a little uncomfortable with this after all this thought process.





