Before the Cart...?
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Germany recently declared horses are no longer work animals but recreational, hiking vet prices astronomically. Also, horses might be driven around now but I'm sure there were more of them when 90% of the population were farmers and they all needed some of them.
How does this hike vet prices astronomically, through taxes?
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I’d love to read more about this if you can point me in the right direction.
When Americans Ate Horse Meat - Priceonomics - https://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/
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Lacks the image of free wild horses tho.
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How does this hike vet prices astronomically, through taxes?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Vets aren't organised as a free market in Germany. Instead, prices are set by the federal government through the "Gebührenordnung für Tierärztinnen und Tierärzte (GOT)".
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Owning a horse is like owning a boat. It's not going to grant you happiness.
They say the two happiest days in a horse owner's life are the day they buy the horse and the day the horse tramples them to death.
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They didn't just scale down. Literal tons of horses got slaughtered around the turn of the century and great depression.
There was also the two world wars to consider in terms of horse deaths. Of course those horses died for a noble cause: helping humans slaughter each other in even larger numbers.
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The countries look darker but if you mark a western country, the shown numbers are slightly bigger than 60%.
If a country has 66% of GDP in form of wages, and you increase the wages by 50%, you need 33% of the GDP which leads to 99% of the GDP being used for wages. Obviously there can't be more.
Thanks for the explanation. It kind of makes sense, but I'll still try to play devil's advocate... If people only get slightly more than 60 percent of the value they create, is the rest really only there to make the rich people richer or is it being used to pay off a loan the company might have gotten to pay for a large machine or something? With the bank receiving, obviously, the excess money, which they then use to pay their employees and buildings etc? These numbers seem to suggest that all money that isn't paid to employees directly feeds the greedy ruling class, but it isn't mentioned explicitly and maybe the excess money goes somewhere else as well? Not trying to say it has to be like that, just trying to get a better understanding.
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Considering horses have the possibility of being loyal lifelong pets I'd say they can very well give happiness
I once raced a 3 day old horse, and he was slightly faster then me. And I was pretty fast for a human.
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Thanks for the explanation. It kind of makes sense, but I'll still try to play devil's advocate... If people only get slightly more than 60 percent of the value they create, is the rest really only there to make the rich people richer or is it being used to pay off a loan the company might have gotten to pay for a large machine or something? With the bank receiving, obviously, the excess money, which they then use to pay their employees and buildings etc? These numbers seem to suggest that all money that isn't paid to employees directly feeds the greedy ruling class, but it isn't mentioned explicitly and maybe the excess money goes somewhere else as well? Not trying to say it has to be like that, just trying to get a better understanding.
Yes, it's not black and white. E.g. small shop owners don't receive wages so they are not included.
Overall I think it shows that the rich don't take everything so that a motivation for change should't try to earn more but to improve other problems of society.
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Owning a horse is like owning a boat. It's not going to grant you happiness.
For most of us yes. The decent amount of money that allows us to live comfortably gets real limited when we stretch out further with stuff like a boat and a horse. But for those that got lucky in life to comfortably afford it, a boat and a horse arent seen the money drains since they have more to give. This lets them enjoy the activities that comes with a boat and horse more.
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So horses and Harley Davidson motorcycles have that in common since they most often seen riding on a trailer?
