So horses and Harley Davidson motorcycles have that in common since they most often seen riding on a trailer?
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Lacks the image of free wild horses tho.
In Civilization 7 Horses resource gives +1 damage to Cavalry units in Ancient and Exploration Eras, but in the Modern era Horses resource gives +6 Happiness instead.
Owning a horse is like owning a boat. It's not going to grant you happiness.
For most of us yes. The decent amount of money that allows us to live comfortably gets real limited when we stretch out further with stuff like a boat and a horse. But for those that got lucky in life to comfortably afford it, a boat and a horse arent seen the money drains since they have more to give. This lets them enjoy the activities that comes with a boat and horse more.
They say the two happiest days in a horse owner's life are the day they buy the horse and the day the horse tramples them to death.
Considering horses have the possibility of being loyal lifelong pets I'd say they can very well give happiness
I once raced a 3 day old horse, and he was slightly faster then me. And I was pretty fast for a human.
Germany recently declared horses are no longer work animals but recreational, hiking vet prices astronomically. Also, horses might be driven around now but I'm sure there were more of them when 90% of the population were farmers and they all needed some of them.
How does this hike vet prices astronomically, through taxes?
Vets aren't organised as a free market in Germany. Instead, prices are set by the federal government through the "Gebührenordnung für Tierärztinnen und Tierärzte (GOT)".
Quality life vs. quantity life. Humans should take note.
Humans are the ones who produce the things needed for a higher quality life. The problem is the 1% of humans at the top who steal the goods everyone else makes, not the majority of humans who contribute to making the world a better place.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-share-of-gdp
60% of GDP are wages. People can earn 50% more if all profits would be handed out as wages.
I have no idea how that makes any sense.
First of all, according to your link, the richer countries seem to already be at much higher values, second I have no idea where that 50 percent value comes from even if we ignore the variety in distribution over the various countries.
The countries look darker but if you mark a western country, the shown numbers are slightly bigger than 60%.
If a country has 66% of GDP in form of wages, and you increase the wages by 50%, you need 33% of the GDP which leads to 99% of the GDP being used for wages. Obviously there can't be more.
Thanks for the explanation. It kind of makes sense, but I'll still try to play devil's advocate... If people only get slightly more than 60 percent of the value they create, is the rest really only there to make the rich people richer or is it being used to pay off a loan the company might have gotten to pay for a large machine or something? With the bank receiving, obviously, the excess money, which they then use to pay their employees and buildings etc? These numbers seem to suggest that all money that isn't paid to employees directly feeds the greedy ruling class, but it isn't mentioned explicitly and maybe the excess money goes somewhere else as well? Not trying to say it has to be like that, just trying to get a better understanding.
Yes, it's not black and white. E.g. small shop owners don't receive wages so they are not included.
Overall I think it shows that the rich don't take everything so that a motivation for change should't try to earn more but to improve other problems of society.
when horses turned from a commodity to a luxury good it also resulted in a massive horse genocide. anyway, buy my AI app
I see what you're going for re: automation, but calling this a genocide seems weird to me. Then scaling down cattle farming would also be genocide. There's no horse culture that got eradicated, just less breeding.
They didn't just scale down. Literal tons of horses got slaughtered around the turn of the century and great depression.
There was also the two world wars to consider in terms of horse deaths. Of course those horses died for a noble cause: helping humans slaughter each other in even larger numbers.
I’d love to read more about this if you can point me in the right direction.
When Americans Ate Horse Meat - Priceonomics - https://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/
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If there's any animal that deserves our respect and our care, it's horses.
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Search "Macintosh skydiving game." Skydive! from 1999? You mean Skydive!? Don't scroll down, it's all Skydive!.
Search "classic Mac skydiving game." Skydive!'s an iMac-era classic, so you must want another twenty of the same thing.
Search "classic Mac freefall game." Ohhh, you mean Sky Diving Simulator, from the same year.
Deep sigh.
Search "classic Mac game where you can drop a guy on a horse." Stunt Copter, yeah.
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