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In reply to the discussion: Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining [View all]KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)The real shame to me is that the corporate world does not care about people's heritage or culture. Instead, they focus entirely on profits.
The areas where mines were located would make excellent places for factories, with a hard-working labor supply. Instead, we see manufacturing and even high-technology firms located where it is most convenient and profitable for the company. Changing this mind-set would require a complete reversal of thinking in the corporate world - from profit oriented to worker orientation.
That would also require a substantial change of attitude in our current governments, so that locating in poor or more remote areas would be rewarded. Also, government would need to support new or improved infrastructure in those zones.