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0 pointssmogcutter2y ago0 comments

No Pinkertons here! Just the invisible hand of the market.

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Are you saying you would accept a 19th century mining job over your current one?

He's saying the miners wouldn't accept it either, but any organized attempt to change it was broken up by a private army.

That seems like it wouldn't work if you had a government capable of anything so basic as enforcing the preexisting laws against acts of violence.

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Are you saying you would accept a 19th century mining job over your current one?

He's saying the miners wouldn't accept it either, but any organized attempt to change it was broken up by a private army.

That seems like it wouldn't work if you had a government capable of anything so basic as enforcing the preexisting laws against acts of violence.

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