"Most people in my world aren't manual laborers - not in the way they are here. We have machines that can do a lot of that - faster, more efficient, higher quantities. Our jobs revolve around much different things, and we have rules and regulations about how much companies can ask you to work, how much they have to pay you, the safety of the job, etcetera. It leaves a lot more time socially, and then with moves to cities - well, those jobs don't require animal help," he shrugged. "Take horses. Some farmers use them - but it's a tiny, tiny fraction and usually for a religious reason. We have machines that harvest now, and machines to get us around much faster than any horse could. Horses are mostly leisure and sport animals in my world. Expensive ones, but they are."