r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 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/mattyice18 8d ago

I mean, there’s a smaller percentage of the world living in disparate poverty than ever before, but get those upvotes.

https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-poverty-data-appendix

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u/Moosplauze 8d ago

In 2021, 4.7 million children under the age of five died; 2.4 million of those were attributed to child and maternal malnutrition.1 That means around half of child deaths were linked to nutritional deficiencies.

https://ourworldindata.org/half-child-deaths-linked-malnutrition

https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/hunger-and-obesity/how-many-people-die-from-hunger-each-year

Poor nutrition and hunger is responsible for the death of 3.1 million children a year. That’s nearly half of all deaths in children under the age of 5. The children die because their bodies lack basic nutrients.

Globally, 822 million people suffer from undernourishment.

I don't give a fuck about upvotes on reddit, that you even bring that up in this context disgusts me.