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Horses used to be used for practically everything. The first commercial steam engine pumped water from mines and was measured in "horsepower", the the rate at w

Horses used to be used for practically everything. The first commercial steam engine pumped water from mines and was measured in "horsepower", the the rate at which a horse could continuously pump water. Then steam engines replaced freight hauling. Then personal transport. Don't see many working horses now.

musage 9y ago
Don't see many horses at all. That is, the offspring of those working horses certainly doesn't roam about in pastures, to pursue happiness because there are no jobs that require them.
- pygy_ 9y ago
  I've read here that the obsolete horses helped bootstrap the pet food industry...
  - tbirrell 9y ago
    That was not something I needed to know.
deepGem 9y ago
Are you implying that human population could ultimately decline, because of AI and automation ? If so, why is that undesirable.
- strken 9y ago
  Some believe that a human life has intrinsic value, even outside the value of the species as a whole and even outside the value of that human's labour.
  - deepGem 9y ago
    True, but some believe that population growth has to stabilise at some point.
    - eloisant 9y ago
      It is stabilizing already, natality in developing countries dropped much faster than what was expected.
dsego 9y ago
In Pursuit of Honor (1995) > The movie follows the plight of the officers as they attempt to save the animals that the Army no longer needs as it modernizes toward a mechanized military. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113399/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113399/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Pursuit_of_Honor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Pursuit_of_Honor