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JOExHIGASHI posted...

Sure I was intelligent enough and physically able but it doesn't fit my personality so suggesting all coal miners just pick up a skill so different from their current field is not a realistic solution

I mean, ultimately they're going to have to pick a different skill of some sort. Maybe not programming, but coal is a dying industry and technological process means that the manpower requirements for modern coal mines are far, far lower than the mines of the past. The jobs that have left that industry are never coming back, no matter what Trump says.

And coal is just one of dozens of industries where workers are threatened by increasing automation. We will need a strategy for what to do with those workers in the future, else we are going to see a massive unemployment spike, with all the economic, social, and political consequences that entails. Even if the specifics are wonky, I'm pleased this is at least being talked about as a problem and solutions are being batted around.

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