They do work, as toys for spoiled rich people, which might be worse than doing actual useful work for someone who depends on their ability to do this work for a long time and therefore would take appropriate care of them.
The absolute numbers are likely much smaller. There were once so many horse carts that cities feared to drown in horse shit, just before the invention of the motorized car.
And now horses don’t work anymore. Sounds like a win for the horses to me.
They do work, as toys for spoiled rich people, which might be worse than doing actual useful work for someone who depends on their ability to do this work for a long time and therefore would take appropriate care of them.
The absolute numbers are likely much smaller. There were once so many horse carts that cities feared to drown in horse shit, just before the invention of the motorized car.