The horse vs the automobile is a great example of a want. People did not want to deal with horses. They smell, can only carry two or three people, are slow, and

The horse vs the automobile is a great example of a want. People did not want to deal with horses. They smell, can only carry two or three people, are slow, and require a lot of upkeep. Worst is that they are dangerous. Horses can kill with a bite or kick. No matter how much you tried you could not really improve on a horse. The carriage proved that. How many hundred of years passed during which the carriage did not have any significant technical improvements? This due to the fact that you cannot simply improve a horse. On the other hand, the automobile has been evolving into something that people go broke to buy every day. They do smell, harm the environment, are sometimes slow (they started out to be very slow), require upkeep, and kill many people every year. Yet they still buy it. People want it. Sure, there are other factors at play such as automobile-biased planning to promote the sales of cars. But at the end of the day, the market conditions are the wants that define the want. The problem defines the want, which goes higher up the list than the need. Tell me, do you own a car? If so, which brand?