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maxrandb

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8. Exactly! The fucksticks try to make coal-mining sound like it was fucking heaven

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 30, 2025, 03:38 PM

Apr 2025

My grandfather worked to unionize coal miners in Corning, OH. He got put in a hospital by some goons, but they got their union.

He died from Black Lung disease at 63.

It sure wasn't "paradise".

There is going to be so much automation, even if some "factory" work returns, it's going to be the temporary 12-18 months it takes to construct the "factory".

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