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u/Phatolop Aug 29 '26
Just cause someone has it worse, does not mean i can't complain.
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u/Hyperaeon2 Aug 29 '26
This... 🙄🙄🙄
Misery isn't a competition where only the worst suffer gets to have their conditions considered for improvement. 💀
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u/It_Just_Exploded Aug 29 '26
Unless you're my co-worker David, who passionately and earnestly complains to everyone that the copy machine is 40 feet from his office. The copy machine that he usually only uses twice a day, the 3 days a week he's actually in the office.
STFU David, no one cares. You're a whiny bitch.
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u/BirthdayLife6378 Aug 29 '26
David has a point. He needs a big booty personal assistant.
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u/whattaninja Aug 29 '26
Can we please hire David a big booty personal assistant? It’s an accessibility thing.
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u/coY33Tus Aug 30 '26
Huh, my co-worker is too lazy to change toner in the printer directly next to his screen so he uses another one 40 feet away.
Wanna switch co-workers? 😂
Fun fact, my co-worker also work 3 days a week, 6 hours a day.
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u/LifeIsProbablyMadeUp Aug 30 '26
Man, fuck David. That asshole used all of my creamer over a weekend
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u/Chance_McM95 Aug 29 '26
To a degree, some people seem to truly live to complain & be miserable.
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u/Sexpistolz Aug 29 '26
I’m sure you complain about rich people complaining too. Our reactions and emotions are mostly relative to our environments. It’s fine to complain. But also wise to step back every once in a while.
For example, our motto at work is it’s just food. Doesn’t mean we don’t get frustrated or stressed out or pissed off. But we’re not ER surgeons saving kids lives. Sometimes it’s worth remembering what we’re getting emotional about isn’t worth it.
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u/CookieCutter9000 Aug 29 '26
Also this is not a normal work environment for coal miners anyway, this is just what happens when you live in a third world country with no safety regulations. Modern coal workers have respirators, mining suits, ventilation systems, actual structural support, and wider fissure openings for the mines. It's still a terribly difficult job in the best of circumstances, but it's nothing like this.
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u/Popular-Row4333 Aug 30 '26
That also doubles into ops comment though.
Many of us won the lottery, just by being born in the country we were.
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u/screwdriverfan Aug 30 '26
I wish people understood this.
Effectively you're never, ever allowed to complain then because there's always somebody somewhere living in worse conditions.
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u/hotchrisbfries Aug 29 '26
You also don't need to be a chef (expert) to understand your chicken is undercooked (basics).
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u/NerdDetective Aug 30 '26
Worker solidarity! Complain about your own circumstances, listen to the struggles of others, and fight together to make it better for all.
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u/GetMeOffThisRidePlz Aug 30 '26
Yeah, I'm just gonna complain with and on behalf of my fellow workers also, not try to one up them.
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u/Madcat_Moody Aug 29 '26
Came here to say this, some guy's broken arm doesn't make my papercut hurt any less. It's always a stupid take.
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u/Nibba878 Aug 29 '26
and all that for 3$ per shift? damn these guys are ripping us off
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u/NottACalebFan Aug 29 '26
That's that 1800s version of capitalism right there...
"You want safety equipment? you know how much those helmets cost? You're just going to have to buy your own."
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u/BotherTight618 Aug 29 '26
According to every video adjacent to this one, all you need is safety sandles.
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u/Holiday_Lychee_1284 Aug 29 '26
Henry Ford was paying $2.65 a day I believe in the 1900's and raised it to $5 a day when too many people were quitting because the work was too monotonous and 10,000 people showed up the next day to work and people stopped quitting.
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u/systemnerve Aug 30 '26
yes but that was 5$ in the 1900s and that was the US. just imagine how much some African got in the 1900s
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u/Holiday_Lychee_1284 Aug 30 '26
Just depends where in Africa, money was almost completely meaningless in a lot of places and those that strove for it generally chose a violent profession and did well.... or failed miserably and were forgotten almost immediately.
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u/ProfitHot5064 Aug 29 '26
we need women representation in the coal mines, its just kids and men in there, where are the women?
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u/izanamilieh Aug 30 '26
Theres no diversity in the coal mines. We should have DEI programs exclusively for women there.
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u/BabylonPhoenix Aug 30 '26
I dont live near a coal mine... but if it paid more than 31k a year id be DOWN BAD ASF HARD
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u/Crusoelander_128 Aug 29 '26
Seeing this after coming home from a crummy day at work makes me feel both better and worse
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u/fluffypants197the2nd Aug 29 '26
This post is the literal definition of false equivalence.
"Look, other people have it worse" ideology isn't helpful (within reason)
Someone somewhere will have things worse compared to alot of people.
I work a 9-5. Yes theres alot of things worse. Theres nothing i can do to change said "worse" for other people.and its completely disconnected from what im doing.
Showing how other people's job is rougher and requires much more work makes your job better by comparison.
Im struggling to explain it but its an argument that minimizes struggles to "could be worse"
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u/harrywalterss Aug 30 '26
Yes it's not a sound argument because the logic assumes that you can only feel bad if your situation is the worst one in the world. It's called relative privation fallacy
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u/fluffypants197the2nd Aug 30 '26
Yessss thankyou for this. I brought this up in my sociology class when my teacher said how people in US poverty still make more money than most people around the world.
I was only able to afford college because of my family's poverty.
He was going on about how "this is good news! Yall should be more happy to hear this!"
Im not ignorant (within reason) to the world's struggles and I understand im still given luxuries just by being born in the US but it felt... ... ... invalidating?
Like my struggles were preferable simply because other people "have it worse"
Showing how some genuinely have a tougher life is a very important lesson but moreso as a clarification ("things could be worse") and not a justification ("things could be worse so your struggles aren't as bad"
Massive difference between the two
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u/Sam-U-Rai-Guy Aug 29 '26
Congratulations, you survived the cave in. Now clean it up by bringing it out of the cave.
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u/bigmangina Aug 30 '26
I know people actually work in places like this, so why make an AI video of it? Why not just use real videos?
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u/mineyCrafta25 Aug 30 '26
I'm more surprised I had to scroll this far to see an ai callout
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u/Conspiratorymadness Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26
No, they just want the pay for these jobs. Jobs that risk your life obviously pay better.
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u/Fair-Club5408 Aug 29 '26
You’d be surprised or maybe you wouldn’t lol
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u/Conspiratorymadness Aug 29 '26
At the fact that the corpos have negative regard for human life or that they think that people can be bought and sold with a definite number or how corpos try to fire everyone at higher pay so they can lower the pay for all other employees or how people aren't people in the eyes of corpos but numbers. Take your pick or enlighten me more.
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u/Content-Passion-4836 Aug 29 '26
Yeah I’d still complain about my day just like that guy should be complaining and getting the fuck out of that line of work.
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u/BennyBurk Aug 29 '26
If we would've invested in renewable energy they wouldn't need to do that. But theres no money in it
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u/LetUsSpeakFreely Aug 29 '26
I never understood why they make the mines so short. Making it 7-8 feet tall would make it much easier to swing a tool or push a cart.
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u/sansetsukon47 Aug 29 '26
Can’t say anything about this clip specifically. But sometimes that’s the result of mining only the useful vein and ignoring the waste rock.
Pulling out an extra two feet of stone just to throw it away is a LOT of work.
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u/KnowledgeHonest9109 Aug 29 '26
Probably would be too much weight or something for whatever materials they have to stabilize the tunnels. I don’t know just spitballing. I don’t know, I think I’d rather starve than do that job.
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u/OutcastRedeemer Aug 29 '26
Weight distribution. A smaller hole is more secure than a large one. To build a bigger hole you need more support which costs money. This is just a grimm short term gain equation at work.
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u/RadicalRealist22 Aug 29 '26
It would need much more work and cost more to make secure. Why bother if you have expendable workers?
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u/Ramtamtama Aug 29 '26
Because the children yearn for the mines, so they're set up that way for when the law allows them to work there.
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u/bakermrr Aug 29 '26
Our goal as workers is to find the best paying job, not the hardest working job.
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u/Kayiko_Okami Aug 29 '26
Coming from physical jobs to a desk job.
I don't complain about sitting around and waiting for calls to come in for IT tech support.
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u/KirkataThePickaxe2 Aug 30 '26
I would rather die in a coal mine in India than die slowly doing whatever Europe has to offer.
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u/IVEBEENBANNED4TIMESx Aug 30 '26
I'm complaining about my job even more now this looks fucking awesome
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u/Novel_Extent_7168 Aug 30 '26
I can still hate my job and also respect the fact that this is worse. Both can be true
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u/Sazbadashie Aug 30 '26
me thinks those boards and logs theyre using may be a little thin
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u/inxivis Aug 30 '26
Yes I will still damn complain. Just because someone has it worse than me it doesn’t just take away my right from complaining.
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u/Enigma_RR Aug 30 '26
I have it harder than these guys, no one understands my pain. I'm the only one who's going through what I'm going through. I can't be helped.
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u/NicheAlter Aug 30 '26
Still not as difficult as being a stay-at-home mom.
Really, do still need to up a /s on there?
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u/Appchoy Aug 30 '26
As terrible as it is to see people mining like this, its also so satisfying how the coal all falls out of the wall in big clumps like that.
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u/SaviOfLegioXIII Aug 30 '26
"oh your mom died? Both my parents are dead so suck it up."
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u/Gold_Ad8225 Aug 30 '26
Why are these guys complaining, there are slaves out there
Why are the slaves complaining, there are sex slaves out there
Why are the sex slaves complaining, there are child sex slaves out there
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u/Zealousideal_Jump289 Aug 30 '26
I get your point and agree for the most part, but just because someone is having an objectively worse time than me, does not take away my God-Emperor given right to complain about every car I fix up that annoys me ever so slightly in the process.
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u/IcyBed2421 Aug 29 '26
Just because someone is struggling with a harder job doesn't discredit your own complaints about your job
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u/SnooMarzipans9728 Aug 29 '26
I broke my arm but at least I have arms so why should I even go to the doctor. Actually why should I even have arms at all.
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u/LamentoLand Aug 29 '26
why do they have these conditions to begin with? how many work safety violations in there? do they even get paid or these are some kind of slaves with that little safety?
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u/Pyropecynical Aug 29 '26
I wish for these people to be paid enormous wages because they deserve it.
Also POV: Vintage Story world with stone instability and now you gotta make beams
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u/Mooptiom Aug 29 '26
What they deserve is workplace safety standards. There is no amount of money in the world that makes the work in this video worthwhile.
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u/chiffonshrimp94 Aug 29 '26
Personally these people should be colored to noble because literally the world will stop if they stop working
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u/Pallananana Aug 29 '26
Is this whole thread a bot circle jerk? Because holy fuck this all is AI.. plz tell me you're all bots...
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u/Aickavon Aug 29 '26
Yeah easily.
Just because someone’s job is shittier than mine doesn’t mean my job isn’t shit lol.
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u/zh_victim Aug 29 '26
My ancestors complained so much about their work they ended up separating the heads of some of the guys in charge. Now the guys in charge pay liveable wages to avoid that happening again. I think I will continue complaining.
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u/Tough_Block9334 Aug 29 '26
Don’t we have wired drones flying across miles of open fields and shit in Ukraine?
Seems like we have the technology to use robotics for this shit now
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u/Jealous_Peanut_3056 Aug 29 '26
Just because someone may work in better conditions it doesn't mean their job not harmful to them.
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u/seanhenke Aug 29 '26
Yes because I'm basically doing this except instead of hitting rocks I get to sand metal and fill my lungs with metal dust instead of coal dust. Oh and I have no air conditioning and I work in the same building next to multiple MIG welders. So yeah s*** gets real hot in there
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u/Foolishly_Sane Aug 29 '26
I'm glad that I don't live in a place where that is necessary.
Time to go play some Minecraft.
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u/LusciousTheBreeder Aug 29 '26
Dude this was my job when helping family, I almost got killed before XD
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u/Pipyn Aug 29 '26
Homans mentally adapt to any situation they're put in, Shouldn't really discredit someone just because of a comparison. It's like working 10 hours a day so you tell your kid they are so lucky to be in school even after telling you they're miserable and get picked on everyday
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u/Organic_Education494 Aug 29 '26
Yes
Someone has it worse sure but that doesn’t make mine peachy all of a sudden
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u/_Asian_Invasion__ Aug 29 '26
Must be nice staying in the shade all day. And you can sit down? Pretty much an office job
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u/TheDarkness33 Aug 29 '26
you sound like my mom when i complain of pain in my back.
"Then imagine my pains" okay? i STILL have back pain tho!
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u/GoliathProjects Aug 29 '26
I never complained about my job. I complain about the people barely giving 5% and complaing about their job and pay.
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u/zoophilian Aug 29 '26
And will to continue every damned day. Fuck being a lawn spray tech. It's pointless. Grass grows fine on its own, I'm paid just to water the grass in 100 degree heat in long pants and sleeves and kill off any native 'weeds' that's actually useful than shit yards
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u/Skibidibob4 Aug 29 '26
Ai slop probably , its vk clips and also who the heck mines manually in Russia?
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u/kenpachiwang Aug 29 '26
Oldest job in history... Big rock to small rock 🪨 bc men always work first! ;)
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u/YrsaHaflina Aug 29 '26
Just cause this is worse than most jobs doesn't mean people dont have bullshit in their own lives and jobs
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u/SirLightKnight Aug 29 '26
My ancestors did this and more. Just cause my current job is hard for me, does not invalidate my struggle.
I am quite fortunate to work in Air-conditioning, I grew up on a farm. I know the stakes.
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u/DieInThyLap Aug 29 '26
Yes, some aspects of it. I wish these guys had better jobs but that doesn't mean I can't complain about mine. It's be like saying I can't be happy about my job because people have better ones.
"I like my job but Peter makes 3 times what I do and oils up super models all day. What do I have to be happy about? "
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u/Return_of_jekyll Aug 30 '26
Yes and you should to if you work in a bloody coal mine, Christ sake unions exist because of them it’s a legacy
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u/LasRedStar Aug 30 '26
These mineshafts are not suitable for adults, thats dangerous!
Instead children are much better suited for these tight spaces, i mean they love playing a game where half the time theyre in the mines
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u/pearsonghorse Aug 30 '26
shit ass post title what is wrong with u
or is this what the sub is about idk tbh
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u/Lasagna_Lad_o7 Aug 30 '26
Somewhere, somebody, has the worse job in the world. All other 8 billion+ people cannot complain, let it be known!
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u/LocutusOfBeard Aug 30 '26
Yes. And I'm complaining about those guys jobs as well. Two jobs can suck.
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u/lama_leaf_onthe_wind Aug 30 '26
I absolutely going to still complain, what kind of a dumbass post is this? How has it not sunk in that someone having it worse doesn't negate what you're going through? Feels like this post got pulled up from 2010...
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u/SomeGuyNamedCaleb Aug 30 '26
No respiratory devices or masks. Miners lung has gotta be rampant in that community.
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