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Not only the lives directly saved as in the ambulance example, but indirectly saved by making better, fresher food available, by removing tons of horse feces fr
by ams6110 9y ago
Not only the lives directly saved as in the ambulance example, but indirectly saved by making better, fresher food available, by removing tons of horse feces from the streets, and generally improving quality of life by fueling a huge amount of economic activity that wouldn't be possible otherwise.
- WalterBright 9y agoMy father grew up during the transition from horse to car, and he said people have forgotten about how dangerous horses are - they killed a lot more people (relatively speaking) than cars do. Just cleaning up the daily harvest of dead horses was a major operation in every city.