• @Rusty@lemmy.ca
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    321 day ago

    In Civilization 7 Horses resource gives +1 damage to Cavalry units in Ancient and Exploration Eras, but in the Modern era Horses resource gives +6 Happiness instead.

      • @StaticFalconar@lemmy.world
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        11 hour ago

        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.

  • @DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    221 day ago

    when horses turned from a commodity to a luxury good it also resulted in a massive horse genocide. anyway, buy my AI app

    • @MBM@lemmings.world
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      523 hours ago

      I see what you’re going for re: automation, but calling this a genocide seems weird to me. Then scaling down cattle farming would also be genocide. There’s no horse culture that got eradicated, just less breeding.

  • @Asetru@feddit.org
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    291 day ago

    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.

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        6 hours ago

        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)”.

      • OBJECTION!
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        161 day ago

        Humans are the ones who produce the things needed for a higher quality life. The problem is the 1% of humans at the top who steal the goods everyone else makes, not the majority of humans who contribute to making the world a better place.

          • @Asetru@feddit.org
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            315 hours ago

            I have no idea how that makes any sense.

            First of all, according to your link, the richer countries seem to already be at much higher values, second I have no idea where that 50 percent value comes from even if we ignore the variety in distribution over the various countries.

            • @plyth@feddit.org
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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.

              • @Asetru@feddit.org
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                14 hours ago

                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.

                • @plyth@feddit.org
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                  12 hours ago

                  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.