How Capitalists — Unlike Environmentalists — Make Life Easier for the Disabled When I was a kid in the 1980s, Velcro shoes hit the stores in force. Although Puma first started using the fasteners in 1968, it was not until the 1980s that the shoes became commonplace on the street and at retail outlets. At the time, many of us mocked the idea. “Who is so lazy he can’t tie shoelaces?” we snickered. W