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Bob Murray (of "Eat Shit Bob" fame), who fought against Black Lung regulations as a coal operator, has filed for Black Lung benefits (UP: Passed away)

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Muppet of a Man

Muppet of a Man

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Maybe this is the beginning of a karmic shift in the universe where rich assholes and conmen lose everything instead of the everyday people they exploit. If I remember correctly, karma was strongly knocked off its appropriate course the day David Bowie died back in the beginning of 2016 (which back then was the 2020 of its time).
 
TheHunter

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Saganator

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Lol I didn't realize this was a bumped thread until about 10 posts in, saw the date, got hopeful and went to the bottom and thread delivered. Eat shit in your grave asshole
 
Josh378

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Adventureracing said:
This is what I find so frustrating about how much people worship the coal industry. It's always been such an exploitative industry run by people who only care about money and continually fuck over their employees putting them in unsafe conditions.
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Because that's all they know to do. When I used to be a Field Network Engineer, I used to visit old towns in the midwest that had old, closed down coal mines and speak with the elderly who used to work there at the old homes/VA Hospitals and they would talk about stories about fighting tooth an nail about keeping the coal mines open. Even when presented with an alternate solution of being trained on newer green renewal energy industry, the answer was always "too hard to learn new stuff" or "Jobs for soft men".

For me it was mind-blowing that they could be offered a more safety environment with more pay but would take worse for less.
 
VariantX

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Adventureracing said:
This is what I find so frustrating about how much people worship the coal industry. It's always been such an exploitative industry run by people who only care about money and continually fuck over their employees putting them in unsafe conditions.
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People are comfortable in what they know, even if its killing them slowly. For some, its far easier to go hundreds of feet into the earth for long hours at a time and wear their bodies down in inhospitable conditions to make a living than to try and start over to survive another way.
 
entremet

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Josh378 said:
Because that's all they know to do. When I used to be a Field Network Engineer, I used to visit old towns in the midwest that had old, closed down coal mines and speak with the elderly who used to work there at the old homes/VA Hospitals and they would talk about stories about fighting tooth an nail about keeping the coal mines open. Even when presented with an alternate solution of being trained on newer green renewal energy industry, the answer was always "too hard to learn new stuff" or "Jobs for soft men".

For me it was mind-blowing that they could be offered a more safety environment with more pay but would take worse for less.
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Toxic masculinity sure is killer.
 
Tsuyu

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No sympathy.

If his family members has any conscience, they will donate a large amount of his wealth that was accumulated through exploitation to the employees who suffered under him, directly or via charity / nonprofit organization.

If not, they can get fucked. Every single one of them who benefited from this.
 
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platocplx

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incredible. More universe aligning shit coming soon folks. 2020 is ending on a high note.
 
Nepenthe

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The world needs to operate in this karmic fashion more consistently.
 
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