Golf carts were originally invented in the early 1930s not for lazy athletes, but specifically for disabled people who wanted to navigate grocery stores.

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Golf carts were originally invented in the early 1930s not for lazy athletes, but specifically for disabled people who wanted to navigate grocery stores. Lyman Beecher built a crude three-wheeled electric carriage to help seniors with mobility issues, and it was not until twenty years later that wealthy country club elites completely hijacked the concept. Now these glorified electric wheelbarrows are a multibillion-dollar industry used primarily by middle-aged men in polo shirts who refuse to walk three hundred yards across manicured grass. It is a classic tale of a genuinely helpful medical innovation being violently co-opted by the upper class so they can drink overpriced beers while barely engaging in a so-called sport