Why is walking on your bare feet considered “good” for you, but walking around in thin-soled shoes is harmful or bad for your feet?

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Answer 1

mostly because the foot anatomy is built to absorb force just like a car suspension.

A thin soled shoes doesn’t let the foot and the toes extend and have no absorbing power

You can imagine this as if put pebbles between the spires of your car suspension. The pebbles don’t allow the spring compression so every force is transmitted to the rest of the car

Answer 2

Shoes are designed to simulate and support the existing functionality of our feet. If you have bad quality or worn out shoes, they don’t help with the existing physics of the foot.

Mind you, in our modern world, depending where you’re walking, some protection on the foot is vital to avoid, you know, broken glass and the like. So in that sense, any shoe is better than no shoe. If we’re talking about carpet or soft earth, though, going barefoot would be preferable.