Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "West Virginia Coal Miners: WAKE UP!" video.

@Unclejamsarmy is WV magically cursed to be poor, or is the poverty because of economic policy decisions we could change rather than driving families out of their homes through economic oppression? Try to think just a bit more please.
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osborne007 you could easily flip that causal link and argue they turn hard to religion because of the environment they live in and be way more logically sound. Sure there's a feedback loop there, but it's neither as simple as "because A, B" nor something that can't be broken.
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@Unclejamsarmy have you considered the policies one has to put in place to make WV useful for coal (such as that absense of a good education, which I don't give a fuck if the adults don't like, the kids have a right to) or just the rapant ecological damage might interfere with other options? Maybe putting wind turbines on top of mountains and dams in the valleys would make more sense if there weren't coal companies buying up the mountains to take the tops off rip out the coal and dump the waste in the valleys. Resource extraction economies tend to not put much resources into developing infrastructure or the people, but those are policy choices. We could make different ones and still have a productive WV (with less externalized costs) than what we have if people like you weren't trying to find reasons to justify writing off whole regions just because of how the "free market" uses them.
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osborne007 yeah right, fuck fixing everything and everyone that gets born there. Let's just abandon a whole fucking state because we don't like the people we've left uneducated and desperate /s Go fuck yourself. You'll spend less time damaging the causes you think you support.
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