On 5/18/2021 1:27 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-05-18 12:47 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 2:50:24 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>>>> I got to see the inside of that mine once. Dark, damp and a tunnel
>>> going way underground that mountain.
>>>
>>> That would be a scary place to work all your life.
>>
>> It sure sounds like a shitty way to live. I can't say if it's better
>> to be a miner or a slave. Working underground sounds like a
>> terrifying notion. My father-in-law worked in a coal mine when he was
>> young. He didn't like it so he learned to dig for data with computers
>> instead. A friend's dad became a rocket scientist to get away from
>> mining. They certainly done better than their fellow coal miners.
>>
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> Think about what it would have been like in the old days for people in
> northern regions. They often worked at least 12 hours a day. They would
> go to work in the dark and come home in the dark and might not see the
> sun for a week at a time.

Yes...12 hour shifts and very cheap pay. Before they got unionized they
got paid by the ton, not by the hour. Any time spend on safety
precautions were the workers problem and took away from their amount of
coal produced.