>You don't want to kill your workers. If you do, soon there will be no workers to mine your coal, or man your rigs or whatever you need them for. Well that's c

>You don't want to kill your workers. If you do, soon there will be no workers to mine your coal, or man your rigs or whatever you need them for. Well that's clearly not the case. Coal mining has been happening for centuries and it's been dangerous the whole time, black lung isn't a new thing. And yet we haven't run out of coal workers... and I don't imagine we're about to. It is a slow death that can take years to develop. If you have a productive worker for five, ten, twenty years before black lung gets them... Well coal workers aren't dying faster than people are being born And everyone knows it's dangerous work that can kill you a dozen different ways and companies have proven over and over again to be largely indifferent about protecting workers unless there's a gun to their head. So why does anyone agree to do this work? Well if you've got no options and it's the best paying work around and you've got kids to feed, well maybe you bite the bullet and hope you're one of the lucky ones...