re: #63 Gus

It’s part of our history. There’s some pride in their too. There are families. Work. Sacrifice in addition to labor abuse. It’s complex. Something that can’t be whittled down to 21st century Twitter sound bites and blogs.

Largely expendable and illiterate children dodging minecarts while wearing burning oil lamps on their heads. Driving down the cost of labor so that rich mine owners generate the profits needed to pay Pinkerton strike breakers.

Like Donkey Kong Country, but with black lung.

Thank God for the Fair Labor Standards Act and OSHA.