"This mess hall could supply food for 600 white workers or 1,800 Chinese workers"
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Tbh as a CA resident at the time learning about the whole history of Death Valley and the mines was formative for me
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Like this was a big big part of the SoCal economic boom in the early 20th century
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The best part is mulling over how when machines make hell jobs no longer necessary it's bad news for the workers who will now be penniless
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The big fight right now to "keep coal alive" even though coal is poison for the whole human race and coal mining is an awful fucking job
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Bc we decided ppl shouldn't get fed unless they do some kind of job and then, worse, indoctrinated the ppl themselves to ID w their jobs
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I got looking for more "survivor" stories after talking abt Poon Lim on the life raft and stumbled on the two Chinese brothers buried alive
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In 2007, two dudes were working in an illegal coal mine in China, had a tunnel collapse on them and were buried alive for days
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They said they heard the digging from the rescue operation and then heard the digging stop when they were declared dead
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And so had to dig their own way out upward through 66 feet of coal
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As for why tf you would choose to work in an ILLEGAL coal mine w no safety oversight they said so in the article
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Joking around "This is what I have to do to afford an apartment in the city and now my wife's gonna share it w some other guy"
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I peg China as a "Second World" country (not according to the old-school def of "Second World" meaning ideologically communist)
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