[Mogger]

Right no prob, all those 40 year old miners with family’s “can just learn to code”.

The "pick and shovel" days of mining are long gone.

Most miners are now skilled equipment operators.

This sets them up for "same but different" jobs that they can easily train into.

"Coding" is not one of them, but to a "journalist" or politician who knows so little, they don't know what they don't know, it is.

[Zhang Fei]

[The “pick and shovel” days of mining are long gone.

Most miners are now skilled equipment operators.

This sets them up for “same but different” jobs that they can easily train into.

“Coding” is not one of them, but to a “journalist” or politician who knows so little, they don’t know what they don’t know, it is. ]

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Precisely. Sewing machines made producing clothing much easier, but did not do away with the need for people to make clothing. Seamstresses just became a lot more productive than they were with just needle and thread.

[gibsonguy]

“The “pick and shovel” days of mining are long gone.
Most miners are now skilled equipment operators.”

Well yes of course. That is beside the point. I was referring to the idiotic “is coal really necessary” remark.