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Zeus posted...

First off, horses had no function for most of recorded history. They were domesticated reasonably late, took forever to be selectively bred into a useful form, and then briefly enjoyed a period of moderate ubiquity

Bro, f***ing what?
Atilla the Hun, Gengas Khan, the Assyrians, all uses horses to wreck hell on the societies of the day. Basically from recorded history (the Bible) until literally World War 1, horses were used.

Transportation they were ubiquitous like American Culture, but that's it.

Zeus posted...

Secondly, horses STILL serve countless functions as is. It's not like they were entirely replaced by cars or other conveniences. They're still used for sport and recreation, not to meant used in popular entertainment.

I could compare numbers of horse populations, but I think you know they're not exactly reasonably matched nowadays.

Zeus posted...

Throughout human history, the human worker has undergone multiple major shifts. The idea that "oh, this is it for them!" is a complete farce believed primarily by people with little imagination.

But we have never seen mass displacements of workers, the closest we have seen is The Great Depression, which had unemployment at about 15%, we have never seen an entire workforce gone in a generation before, this will be something else entirely.