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0 pointsAnthonyMouse2y ago0 comments

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

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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.

Well.. to be fair both sides used violence and governments generally (with very few exceptions) sided with the business owners.

They were plenty capable. They didn’t want to.

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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.

Well.. to be fair both sides used violence and governments generally (with very few exceptions) sided with the business owners.

They were plenty capable. They didn’t want to.

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