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Re:Porsche's Idea for a Six-Stroke Internal Combustion Engin... by Tade0 on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:59AM (#41608605)
In the meantime the human population quadrupled, so the actual demand for horses is not half, but closer to 1/8 of what it was.

They'll go the way of horses in the sense that you'll be hardly seeing any in cities.

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Re:Porsche's Idea for a Six-Stroke Internal Combustion Engin... by GavinMcG on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:13AM (#41608662)
You seem to be using “actual” in a way that suggests proportion to population is a key part of the definition. But although a company that served a market for 20 million might well have failed as the market shrank, it also had the opportunity to survive and continue serving an actual market with an actual demand for 7 million actual horses.
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Re:Porsche's Idea for a Six-Stroke Internal Combustion Engin... by 082349872349872 on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:30AM (#41608738)
Hermès' original market for tack (harnesses and bridles for driving) shrank considerably, but they've found new markets since.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-IKeRyRAg

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