r/Damnthatsinteresting 9d ago

Video Coal mining

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u/FeetballFan 9d ago

No masks?

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u/Moosplauze 9d ago

No, these people work hard in extremely unsafe work environments for less money per month than we in the west spend for 1 meal in a restaurant. That's how effed up this world is, everything is designed so that 10% can live in luxury while the other 90% live in poverty although they work twice as hard as the 10%.

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u/FondabaruCBR4_6RSAWD 8d ago

Unfortunately, it seems like the only true way for the entire worlds’ quality of life to reach some kind of parity is by there simply not being enough people to have large amounts of leverage over. Fertility rates are going down, but peak population is still decades away.