Message from @Arch-Fiend
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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.
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.
asia and europe are cheeply mined out now, south america, africa, australia, and antartica are the only contanents that dont have their surfaces almost completely scowered
the future of mining when cheep mining is done is either in those contanents or more expensive mining