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The Parallels to Medical Insurance Coverage
There are definitely modern day parallels, but we should also acknowledge it was way worse back then. There's a song called Company Town by Carl Sandberg that I think can phase how many miners felt about their situation. You live in a company house, you go to a company school, you work for this company, according to company rules and all use company lights. The company preacher teaches us what the company thinks is right. So like, yeah, if this sounds a little bit like slavery to you, it actually did to a number of black miners who were former slaves themselves. If you don't like that the boss is one ton cart is actually one and a half tons,. Well, now