> The rich and powerful only suffer us because they need us.
replyWell that and there are more guns than people and if a million people come for you then there is no army that will be able to save you.
Looking at the news in the US, it feels like the wealthy and powerful are working that problem.
replySo long as they can keep us fighting amongst ourselves in meaningless culture wars. If there is ever a broad alignment of populists spanning left to right, it could get spicy.
replyYou'd be surprised how easy it is to start a war, engineer water shortages and famines.
replyThere are more horses today than ever... Oxen got the short end of the deal - almost nobody uses oxen even though historically they were the backbone labor of the farm, while the horse was for the right.
reply> There are more horses today than ever...
replyThe global horse population peaked in the 1910s.
Apparently there are around 60M horses currently, while there's no world wide data for 1910.
replyHorse ownership isn't what it used to be, but the horse population seems fine.
The only data I can find ignores the majority of horses today - recreational riders. If you can find a better citation I'd stand corrected, but everything I can find counts race horses and horses used for farming.
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