Not that I mind, but… wearing shoes has a purpose… and the most important one IMO is to make sure our feet stay harms way from broken bottles, nails, stuff like that.
I’m not even gonna get into how cold it must be not wearing them in the winter… or how hot the asfalt might get during the summer. The asfalt can go up to 80, 90°C where I live during the summer, people have fried eggs on it for kicks.
They talk about the benefits of being barefoot as if the grass required to give those health benefits is anywhere in sight. The city environment has as many chemicals as a natural environment has bacteria and vitamins. It really won’t help them, and I’m surprised nobody noticed, since shoes aren’t like skirts where the exposed part is always facing down, unless they were taking baby steps the whole way.