• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    Do you think mining workers had it better under feodalism? Not sure things went worse for them because of capitalism, mining was always a dangerous and shitty job, often done by slaves or convicts because of how shit the conditions were.

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      3 hours ago

      Do you think mining workers had it better under feodalism?

      In the pre-capitalist world mining practices were all over the place… it wasn’t just chain-gangs and overseers. And the conditions for it isn’t fundamentally any shittier than working a farm or a factory - I know because I can literally walk down the street and ask a zama-zama (an artisinal - “illegal”, according to our bootlicking media - miner) and ask him who and what it is that actually makes their work conditions shitty and dangerous.

      We all know what happens to miners under the capitalist mode of production, however - it’s literally why some of the most vicious crackdowns on organised labour in history involved the mining industry.

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        50 minutes ago

        Mining conditions are all over the place right now. Some workers have it good, with good compensation, perks and with a lot of attention paid to safety and others live in horrible deathly conditions and are practically slaves