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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Bryan, if you have evidence that "anyone who can shovel coal" can be taught to write code, what is it? I am stunned you're saying this. One profession is unskilled physical labor, one is purely intellectual, technical problem solving. Couldn't be more different. If every coal miner can learn to write code, who probably can't learn to write code? Anyone? If you were a high school guidance counselor, is there any kind of kid, and kind at all, to whom you would not suggest a career as a computer programmer?
If they could all write code, why aren't they doing that? Better money, much safer, better longevity, more stable. Coal mining seems to me, to be what people do, who have zero other options.
I don't see it as anything close to sane.
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Insanity is thinking coal mining is still done by hand with shovels and thinking that anyone who is a coal miner is so stupid that there are zero other options. Talk about coastal elitists.........denigrating the deplorable.
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
"Insanity is thinking coal mining is still done by hand with shovels "
That necessarily means you think Biden is insane, because HE used the term shovel.
"thinking that anyone who is a coal miner is so stupid that there are zero other options"
I don't think people go into that field who have a lot of other good alternatives. It's a lifestyle people don't want their children to follow them into. Why do something that risky, for such modest pay, if you could do a white collar job? I don't think many people love it the way people love, say, fishing.
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Your words commenting on others.
I assume you could run or maintain the required equipment to mine coal? I assume you to be a well educated white collar worker? And all that mining stuff is something any idiot could do?
Here is some, think you have the skill to do that?
http://www.coaleducation.org/technol..._equipment.htm
Lot's of people on this site who have chosen to work with their minds and hands rather than driving a desk and would not trade you for your space in a cubicle working with or maybe being Bill Lumbergh.
Keep in mind that working in the coal industry in coal country is sort of like working in insurance in Connecticut.