cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27622066

And yet, unhitched from the menial task of transportation, the average horse today enjoys a far better quality of life than the average pre-car horse. Why? Horse girls. You see, now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of “just being themselves” for those who appreciate that most (in much more forgiving circumstances). In this way, horses truly are forever… and the real losers really are mankind. And its machines. In this essay, I will

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    21 days ago

    The steady march of human-driven extinctions is a terrible argument for forcibly breeding a population into the hundreds of millions for the express purpose of manual labor until death. That’s like reading I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and being on the side of the malicious AI because it’s keeping a half dozen people alive specifically to torture them. Also living things don’t need a “purpose” merely to be alive, this is a capitalist delusion.

      • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
        31·
        21 days ago

        I guess more generally it is a hierarchical delusion, since it’s hierarchy that demands purpose from it’s subordinates, capitalism is just the specific hierarchy at play here.