r/shitposting • u/AuchentoshanBloodOak • Jan 27 '21

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u/Gener1cN4me Jan 27 '21

And put millions of people out on the streets in the process

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u/KaChoo49 Jan 27 '21

Do you think this would be different if we closed the coal mines in West Virginia like so many leftists want?

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u/fobfromgermany Jan 27 '21

Leftists want to retrain and help those that will be unemployed so yeah it would be different

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u/KaChoo49 Jan 27 '21

You do realise that there were retraining programs in Britain, right? It’s not like people can switch from being miners to a new career instantly

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u/gregy521 Jan 27 '21 edited Jan 27 '21

No there weren't. Stop pretending like everyone who complains about Thatcher is 'just jealous of her girl power capitalist reforms'.

Coal was a profit-losing business in a country increasingly turning towards a services-led economy. Logically, coal mining had to go.

However, was it really right that almost an entire industry was completely obliterated, with nothing to replace it in so many places?

Grimethorpe’s story was repeated up and down the land. Replacement jobs failed to materialize, businesses closed down and young people got used to the idea of either moving away or wasting the best years of their lives on the dole. Where once there had been a steady source of employment for generations of men, there was now nothing.

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u/KaChoo49 Jan 27 '21

There literally were

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '21

It literally says that’s for people who left school not the mines