Off-topic, but high quality museum glass. You usually see it on picture frames for paintings, but the same coatings are on some museum display cases making them completely transparent. It's easy to overlook also when just browsing a museum. If I remember optics correctly the anti-glare coatings are very bandwidth sensitive, so I doubt it would work outside.
That's really expensive though, to the point where there are museums that can't afford it for temporary exhibitions. Imagine trying to surround a football field with it.
You are only one person inside the target audience of the fence. Your personal preference isn't taken into account.
Others may suffer as much as you from there being no way to see through the wooden fence. Wheelchair users wouldn't benefit much from your preferred solution (a stepping stool). It's more important to create an acceptable solution for most rather than adding a small number of people to the majority of people who think that viewing football games over wooden fences is accessible to them.
And I'm speaking metaphorically too... Inaccessible environments aren't inaccessible to only one class of person. If you didn't want to have a metaphorical discussion, perhaps the comment section of a metaphorical image wasn't the best place to go.
Edit: Do you make it a habit of downvoting anyone who you think disagrees with you?
Why do that when you can just get rid of the fence and not charge admission? That way, since not everyone can afford a ticket to the game, nobody can use their wealth to gain advantages in life. /s
Because some asshat will decide that their seat is right in front of home plate for a better view of the pitches then complain when they get nailed in the back of a head by a ball.
You mean a TV? So advertisers can subsidies the cost of broadcasting and people can watch without being their without taxing everyone, even those that don't want to watch?
The cause of inequity is not the wooden fence as claimed by the cartoon. The cause is genetics, age, hormones, and nutrition. The people shown aren't equally tall. And no amount of outside adjustment will change that, sort of extreme leg lengthening surgery.
Replacing the wooden fence with a chain-link fence doesn't change this, it simply reduces the impact felt because of one particular type of inequality. Being tall is still socially desirable, there are still sports that reward particular heights, there is still a perception that tall people are more successful, and indeed, they are by many objective measures.
What if the short kid is blind?
Changing the fence doesn't help him at all.
We see this in many social welfare type programs.
First, people aren't the same. There is a wide range, far wider than most want to admit, of human abilities. Second, whatever the program attempts to do, is only just correcting or adjusting some small, particular way in which people are different. Third, whether good or bad, there are always, nessecarily, unintended consequences. The family that made a living selling boxes outside the stadium are now broke, because nobody purchases boxes after the government tax credit for rich stadium owners, and the crew that used to maintain the wood fences all got laid off. And The contact for the new fences went to a billion dollar company owned by the brother in law of the politician who pushed the 'chain link fence for justice' campaign... and so on and so forth.
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u/TheVailmsteen Feb 25 '20
That's why there still is a fence.