Modern horses usually have a short rough life and they are sent to the sausage factory from slightest join ache. Luckiest end up in some petting farm.
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umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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random_character_a@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where do you even get that from? Most horses are pampered lawn ornaments.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Depends very much on the country they are in. Racehorses don’t tend to live very long and there’s still places where horses are being used for transportation, especially in remote mountainous regions.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
[deleted]random_character_a@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are geographical differences, but in most places their upkeep is expensive and they are mostly used for racing or as beasts of burden. They don’t need much health problems to loose their worth and go to the butchers really easy.
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
It is true already. Washing machines, dishwashers, tractors, lifts, escalators, cars, computers, cnc, power tools, cranes, etc. They make our life much more relaxed.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
[deleted]Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Machines make your life chill.
Buisness owners though strive for hell.
And working class likes it. Otherwise where strikes.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Capitalism
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because with productivity the standard of living that most people expect has risen at least as much.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Do you prefer eternal stagnacy just to keep unskilled jobs? No judgment towards “unskilled” but some jobs just die out and create new jobs. The horse’s carts might be gone, but we have cars now with millions of diverse jobs plus legwork. I prefer a car over a horse-ride. And a house over a hut. And mobile phones over smoke-signals or pidgeons.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
[deleted]Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That I’d wholeheartedly agree with. We long have reached a state of extreme productivity. Yet the spoils of labour is basically still the same. At least for the 99.9%
Potatar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We gave up “all-flat-terrain”, carbon neutral, semi-self driving things and got “this road is not paved so I’ll shake you so much that your baby will die”, “created new jobs: climate disaster control”, “just currently getting some self-driving capabilities”.
I’m half-joking of course, cars are great for long distance travel but you could argue humanity would be far better (apart from GDP) if we have no roads in the cities.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 months ago
There’s an almost unlimited amount of work to do. The elderly/children to care for, the art to be made, the research to be done, etc. Tractors freed up a hive amount of the world population to work on other things, current technology does the same.
The problem is that humans have made a system of tightly controlling what work gets valued, how much it gets paid, what should be done and gatekeeping qualifications/resources to be allowed to do things.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To cRazi_man’s point there is some work that does needs to be done in order to ensure everyone has food, water, shelter, healthcare, free of poison, etc.
However the vast majority of human labor does not go towards those goals and is instead dedicated to who can get the highest score in ‘slave games’ while that necessary work is grossly undermanned.
It’s not “unlimited” but holy shit is there a lot of damage from the last ~200 years that needs to be undone. Learning and teaching people to rest is a very important one.