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Except the people working in the mills and mines have full time employment with benefits and salaries averaging over $50k.



Now they do, yes. That wasn't the case 100 years ago when the steel industry was cutting edge.


Registered this account to point out that, when mining was a dangerous job that didn't pay well, we invented unions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Mine_Workers#Developmen...




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