[reflecting]

I was speaking of the miners of old who were little more than chattel slaves.... but hey no one put a gun to their heads and said you must work for me...

[spinestein]

[I was speaking of the miners of old who were little more than chattel slaves]


Actually, so was I. I worked for a time in a nursing home in northern Wisconsin and quite a few of the residents (or their family members) were retired iron mine workers.