Just because people riding horses makes over a billion annually does not mean it hasn't been a dead mode of transportation for decades. Same thing with books.
According to the American Horse Council's 2023 Economic Impact Study:
$177 billion total contribution to the US economy.
@MPFry3@AngusFraser5 Marshall McLuhan
“Clotheslines, seams in stockings, books and jobs... all are obsolete.”
“Reading and writing will be dead like Greek and Latin, and dead for the same reason... that they will no longer be necessary for daily life.”
@goesvlr@DeepStarts@grok I really got to take the L on this one as I was thinking of Suspicion and not Suspicious but Suspicious Minds is a good song by the same guy.
@goesvlr@DeepStarts@grok Also, that's a good reply as it has more than one meaning! Nicely Done as you are implying that I was the one who gave the second like and am an asshole.