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   David Johnston  wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
   >> David Johnston  wrote   
   >>> Rod Speed wrote   
   >>>> Dimensional Traveler  wrote   
   >>>>> Your Name wrote   
   >>>>>> Robert Bannister  wrote   
   >>>>>>> Your Name wrote   
   >>>>>>>> lal_truckee  wrote   
   >>>>>>>>> David DeLaney wrote   
   >>>>>>>>>> lal_truckee  wrote   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Joy Beeson wrote   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>> eliminating the horse   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>> resulted in the demise of a true, practical,   
   >>>>>>>>>>> and widely available self-driving carriage.   
      
   >>>>>>>>>> Though you have to admit that the pollution   
   >>>>>>>>>> issue was more immediate and terrible than   
   >>>>>>>>>> today's cars and trains and trucks produce.   
      
   >>>>>>>>> Might be easier to teach a horse to use   
   >>>>>>>>> the toilet than to teach a car to drive.   
      
   >>>>>>>> Plus the waste product from a horse has an actual use   
   >>>>>>>> (in gardening) whereas waste product from cars doesn't.   
      
   >>>>>>> But at the height of horse-drawn traffic, there was far more   
   >>>>>>> than could be cleared up, and in 19th century London, there   
   >>>>>>> wasn't much room for growing rhubarb or roses.   
      
   >>>>>> It would give all the unemployed people something to do.  ;-)   
      
   >>>>> Being unemployed in London at the time was a jail-able offense.   
      
   >>>> Bullshit.   
      
   >>> Technically the offense was "not having a means of subsistence.   
      
   >> That never applied to the unemployed.   
      
   > Why didn't it apply to the poor unemployed?   
      
   Because there was a separate system for them, workhouses.   
      
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