[HappyFunGuy]

Remind me how the automobile augmented the horse?

[furyofantares]

Horses don't strive to be employed and humans don't worry about the horse employment rate, either. I don't understand why the comparison to horse-unemployment is so widespread, a horse is an outdated technology in the current context, not an unemployed worker.

[HappyFunGuy]

Because it lends itself to humor and compassion more easily than the casette tape / CD one.

[delecti]

It didn't augment the horse, but it sure augmented the jobs of the courier and chauffeur.

[evgenyp]

The automobile didn't, true, but the wheel, the cart and the plow (among others) did, for thousands of years.

[HappyFunGuy]

So the question is, are we more likely to be shackled with plows, or replaced and only seen for gambling on at a race track :)

[qbrass]

You're more likely to end up as a source of cheap meat and hides.

[throwanem]

Hey, all that surplus capital enabled the creation of the modern pet food industry. Great example!