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> Mining safety back then was basically zero. I don't believe that. People who work in any activity will always learn what's dangerous and take precautions to
by brabel 5y ago
> Mining safety back then was basically zero.
I don't believe that. People who work in any activity will always learn what's dangerous and take precautions to avoid dying. 2,000 years is not as long a time length as we sometimes think, people then were pretty much exactly like us, except for their culture. And I don't think there's any culture where people don't tend to try to not die.
- hugh-avherald 5y agoWW2 had plenty of examples of essentially slave labour with high levels of mortality.
- kragen 5y agoSurely the miners tried to not die, but, being enslaved, they were under the command of people who didn't care if they died or not. Many kinds of mining have historically had very high fatality rates; even 300 years ago the mita to Potosi was basically a death sentence.
- mulmen 5y agoHuh? So, if the mine was unstable the slaves would do what exactly? Go work at another mine?
- catlikesshrimp 5y agoThey would go on a Hunger Strike. If not killed first.
- kragen 5y agoRoman culture considered pity and sympathy to be weaknesses and obedience to be a virtue. Hunger strikes would not have been very effective, and we don't have any evidence of them having been used in Classical times.