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0 pointsvel0city10mo ago0 comments

> Pretty sure cars are more expensive than horse carriage

Basic car ownership can be quite a bit cheaper than a horse + carriage.

The horse will probably eat $10-20/day in food. $600/mo in just food costs. Not including vet bills and what not.

A decent and cheap horse will probably cost you $3k up front. Add in several thousand dollars more for the carriage.

A horse requires practically daily maintenance. A carriage will still require some maintenance.

A horse requires a good bit more land, plus the space to store the carriage. Plus, all the extra time and work mounting and unmounting your horse whenever you need to go.

A horse and carriage isn't really cheaper than a cheap car and way less functional.

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0x500x7910mo ago

Theres a 3 point way to say this. Usually technology: * More efficient * Higher Quality * Less effort

Most successful technologies provide multiple of these benefits. What is terrible, and the direction we are going right now, is that these new systems (or offshoring like we are talking about here) seem/are "Less Effort" but do not hit the other two axioms. This is a very dangerous place to be.

People would rather be lazy than roll their sleeves up and focus, especially in our attention diverting world.

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