yes but they dont tell you that

farming makes shit

thats also true

although corn subsidies don't help.

```Athey, a 34 year-old father of four who has only donned a miner's helmet for two years, says he plans to return to work in a mine as soon as possible.

"It's the only thing I know how to do," he said. "I don't read and write."``` ABC reporting

his reason is he lacks education

which sucks

does he? You know Mr. Athey?

"It's the only thing I know how to do"

Does he lack Education, or is he working a field he's able to work due to a learning disability?

its his own admission he doesn;t have an education is anything outside mining. not that he considers useful.

there are plenty of tools out there that mediate most disabilities. problem is, they are expensive.

i think that a lot of working class industrys are underpayed

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"You can come right out of high school and make $70,000 a year," said Missy Perdue, 22, a stay-at-home mother whose husband, Jeff Perdue, Jr., 22, is a miner.```

I don't even make $70,000 a year.

i barely make that with a degree

So maybe there's a reason people mine, then?

its a dangerous job

Some people like Danger.

farming is slightly less dangerous

yeah, but what happens if all these men getting kicked out of school or not going to college flood the market

If I had the option to start working as a bike courier again, I'd do it.

though people die farming all the time, lots of people die all at once when mining goes wrong

So much damn fun zipping in and out of traffic.

and on the flip side, what happens when those mining jobs disappear

there is only so much minable resources inside the US

we gonna hopefully be mining asteroids by then?

```But miners and their families here say that as compelling as the money is pride in an industry in which generations of West Virginians have invested their blood, sweat and tears.```

weve never come close to depleting all resources from the earth, what we actually do is get to the point of the resources left being very hard to find

did i say earth?

i said US

same deal

same principle.

Yeah, I see Arch's side on that.

people have been mining in the old world for thousands of years before we started here

okay, fine, we have mined all the cheap stuff HERE, but not elsewhere

same point, do these people leave the country for work now?

aint no where to go

generations of Virginians now need to leave Virginia?

I really wish I could post a picture right now.

https://imgur.com/gallery/QKeNZ