No politician or lawyer will ever give a fuck about people with destroyed knees and backs. They act like this is heroic, but what they're really telling you is to put a shotgun in your mouth and blow your broken ass away. I'm so fucking glad I don't do hard manual labor. People in that position are just disposable when they get old, apparently.
"Appropriate" meaning functioning 4 hours a day, just limp through the last 8 hours of work then go to bed. I tell you, if that's the fate of people who work hard, I'm never getting off my ass.
Hell yeah it does. But America is so puritan that the consensus is you'd be better off painting the ceiling red than taking something that could even remotely be construed as pleasurable in order to function.
From that abstract, either model sounds like the victim ends up spending 16-20 hours a day in bed.
TYB