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I know it is a joke but it is such a silly comparison.
The left one is a work horse, transporting you and whatever you need moving. The right one is likely a race or show horse which does no work other than racing or whatever tricks they do as a show horse. You wouldn't want them exhausted for doing their thing, so obviously you transport them like this. If we didn't have cars you would have a (or several) work horse(s) pulling a cart with the show horse guaranteed.
And now horses don't work anymore. Sounds like a win for the horses to me.
They do work, as toys for spoiled rich people, which might be worse than doing actual useful work for someone who depends on their ability to do this work for a long time and therefore would take appropriate care of them.
The absolute numbers are likely much smaller. There were once so many horse carts that cities feared to drown in horse shit, just before the invention of the motorized car.