Posted on 08/22/2016 7:48:35 AM PDT by C19fan
Ethiopian salt miners brave 140 degree Fahrenheit temperatures while working on the hottest place in earth earning on average £5-a-day. The salt mines, situated in the Afar triangle, stretch across 60,000 square miles and at their lowest point are more than 300 feet below sea level. Professional travel photographer and videographer Joel Santos travelled to the area to capture the dry beauty of this brutal expanse of land.
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140 ?! WHAT ?!
Can humans withstand that heat ?
I hope they get paid breaks.
What SPF sunblock do they wear?
Will the collectivists be demanding $15 an hour for these workers?
Its a dry heat.
I read in the comments section that their compensation is about four times that of a textile worker in Ethiopia. As brutal as it sounds, it doesn’t look as if they’re being forced to do this, and as paltry as their pay sounds to us, to them it’s good money.
At least they get paid. The Romans just used slaves.
Let’s send SEIU and BLM out there to picket and demand $15 per hour ...
Who the heck mines salt these days? and for what purpose?
Pardon me for not reading the article, I’ll use the Monday AM excuse.
I don’t think this is possible.
So... A trade that has been going on for a thousands of years will be ruined by some liberal white do-gooder. He will go in to “rescue” those poor Ethiopians, who are their voluntarily, by demanding higher pay and drive them all out of business. Then, some do-gooder NGO charity group will airlift in tons of salt from US producers and drive the entire Ethiopian salt industry in to bankruptcy.
All while liberal progressives proudly boast about spending $50 a pound for imported Ethiopian salt.
I hope they remember to wear light clothing and drink plenty of non-alcoholic beverages. There is definitely a heat advisory.
I had a long talk with a Mexican textile plant GM, oh, about 20 years ago. It was right in the middle of NAFTA fallout, when companies were elbowing each other out of the way to cross the border.
He said, approximately, that if you paid American workers $9/hour they rapidly got PO'd and quit (sound familiar?). However, you could pay their Mexican counterparts $9 / DAY to do the same thing, and they'd be thrilled. At the time, that was 3x what they could expect in other jobs, plus they had free on-site medical care, and a clean, air-conditioned workplace. And, cafeteria meals were mostly subsidized - when I was working there, I always bought lunch for everyone I was with (I was on an expense account), and lunch for a table full of people came to 27 pesos, or a little less than three bucks.
For them, it was a fantastic opportunity.
Sounds like a typical day at the Columbia based branch of Midwestern electronics recycling and resell outfit.
There never seemed to be enough fans and there was the routine tripping the breakers since there were stacks of servers and PCs to wipe. The breakers couldn’t hold the load and electrical design was cheaped out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_mining
United States
Avery Island, Louisiana;
Detroit, Michigan, 1,100 feet (340 m) beneath which the Detroit Salt Company’s 1,500-acre (10 km2) subterranean complex extends;[6]
Saltville, Virginia, which served as the site of one of the Confederacy’s main saltworks.
Western New York and Central New York, location of American Rock Salt, the largest operating salt mine in the United States with a capacity for producing up to 18,000 tons each day.[7] Syracuse earned the nickname “The Salt City” for its salt mining, an activity that continues in the region to the present day.[8]
That liberal white do-gooder better watch out. Those are top wages for the region and paying jobs are hard to come by. He might just end up with his throat cut just for good measure.
What do you call people crazy enough to work in 140 degree heat for a paltry wage?
Arizonans.
£5 a day could actually be a decent wage in Ethiopia when you convert the currency. Yes that work sucks, but that is life in these developing countries.
Exactly.
People forget the cost of living in third-world toilet-bowls is far below our cost of living.
We end up with idiot leftists (idiomatic intensifier) wailing about poor pay, feeling these poor people have the same cost of living we do.
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