sure, but wearing glasses also weakens your eye muscles. we're living, dynamic, nonlinear, and stochastic systems, not automata with orthogonal settings that we

sure, but wearing glasses also weakens your eye muscles. we're living, dynamic, nonlinear, and stochastic systems, not automata with orthogonal settings that we can tweak simply. glasses can actually make the problem worse (i've personally experienced this in my younger, naiver days[0]). optometrists don't question orthodoxy because doing so could threaten profits. note, that's not to advocate the other extreme of never trusting anyone about anything, but every decision is a trade-off and has drawbacks. the visual acuity afforded by glasses should clearly outweigh the downsides, rather than outsourcing your brain to a hammer-wielding optometrist. [0]: i still have dry-eye from an eye infection that was likely caused by contacts. that was actually the impetus for getting rid of corrective lenses altogether and the subsequent realization that i didn't need them in the first place.