25 Dead, 4 Missing in West Virginia Mine Blast

I'll agree with TTE here. Mining is like the only option for people out there and some families out there have generations involved in it. R.I.P. to all involved.

What's pretty upsetting is the fact that the mine in question has a long history of safety violations. I mean they are probably making billions of dollars and safety for people working miles underground isn't a priority? Stupid.

As for that line of thinking that people living out there could migrate, what a stupid idea that would be. That'd be like taking ghetto kids out to a farm and saying, "here's your new life. Enjoy it." There's a reason most people don't change their entire lifestyle on a whim, and I doubt even this tragedy will make the rest of the miners at that place start leaving in masses.

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where they are now. And it's because they sat there that they were able to do it.

Hell maybe there's not a lot of opportunity, but find what there is. Not a lot of hope for inner city kids to go to Harvard but some make it. Some just have simply no desire to do anything else. It always saddens me to see a child know that they will enter a menial labor job and have no problem with it unless their family owns the business. Not to say that everyone is above the work, but I've lived in areas like that and nobody really has any drive.

People learned how to migrate tens of thousands of years ago.


lol nice