Of course it would be great, and it would also be nice if we could all retire at age 50 and live to be 100, but that is not possible. Someone has to work to pay for these miners’ retirement benefits, so in effect, they become slaves. That is what it means to be forced to labor for the benefit of another. People simply stop producing when what they produce is confiscated, no matter how “good” the reason is for taking it.
I’m hoping all the believers in the free lunch move to Bolivia now.
“The level of production needed to sustain a welfare state cannot be sustained by a welfare state.” ~ Richard W. Fulmer