Originally Posted by
rollagain
Sorcerer said,
No, you'd just develop calluses. We've been around as a species for about a half-million years, most of it without shoes. A great many people still live without them just fine.
Give it a try then.
At least one guy that melted out of a glacier in Austria, given the name
Ötzi, had sophisticated shoes. He's estimated to have lived around 3,500 years ago.