RIGHT TO REPAIR: Paralyzed Man Who Walks With an Exoskeleton Had To Fight Manufacturer Who Didn’t Want To Service It Because ‘It’s Too Old’
The fact that we like and endorse capitalism does not mean that we condone absurd manifestations of sheer corporate greed.
It stands to reason that once you purchase a product – specially an expensive one – you have the right to have it repaired if it breaks or otherwise ceases to function, be it by the manufacturer or by someone else.
But unfortunately, this is not always the case.
Case in point: a former jockey was left paralyzed from the waist down after a horse riding accident.
He was thankfully able to walk again with a cutting-edge piece of robotic tech: a $100,000 ReWalk Personal exoskeleton.
So far, so good: but when one of its small parts malfunctioned,
