On Wed, 19 May 2021 07:51:27 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>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.
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>>>> That would be a scary place to work all your life.
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>>> 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.
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>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.
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Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."