On 5/18/2021 12:47 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 2:50:24 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>> Dsi1 wrote:
>>
>>> If it was a choice between working deep underground or ripping the
>>> earth apart, I'd say rip away. No man should have to work deep in
>>> the earth .
>>
>> My one grandfather and his father did that for their entire working
>> life...about 50 years each.
>>
>> 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.
>
At least the coal mining (in my family) ended with my grandfather. He
had 4 sons and none of them ever worked in that mine. They all fought in
WW2 when young. All survived that then moved away to get better jobs.

Even his 5 daughters married men who never worked in a coal mine.