Why do coal miners want to continue working such a horrible, dirty job?

[mothra1orbit]

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about its being generational.

And not many people realize that coal miners make a lot of money.

From the beginning of coal mining in WV, there has been a lot of pride--patriotic pride--that miners produced the material that kept America moving and producing. It was an essential industry, and everyone knew it. Even when the railroads began using diesel power and household heating switched to natural gas, there was still a huge and important place for coal in manufacturing.

These miners not only feel left behind by technology and abandoned by the left wing which historically represented their interests and now worries about carbon emissions, they feel betrayed by the country they helped build. No wonder they grasp at any straw offered them. The right wing, with its astounding ability to convince poor people to vote against their own best interests, has been that straw ever since JFK.

I don't know what the answer is, but something must be done for these families to help them move into the 21st century.