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minus-squareaesthelete@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoCapitalists closed the coal mines too. Modern day mining techniques require a small fraction of the manual labor they used to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining (Of course they also probably ruin the environment, but nobody seems to give a shit about that.)
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoI would argue that in many places closing coal mines was the policy and governments did pass laws to speed up the process. Not really the case with manufacturing plants.
Capitalists closed the coal mines too.
Modern day mining techniques require a small fraction of the manual labor they used to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining
(Of course they also probably ruin the environment, but nobody seems to give a shit about that.)
I would argue that in many places closing coal mines was the policy and governments did pass laws to speed up the process. Not really the case with manufacturing plants.