🔁Mario Nawfal:
🇺🇸 THE COST OF INDUSTRIALIZATION—A LOOK BACK AT U.S. MINING DEATHS
Everyone talks about bringing back industry, but few acknowledge why the U.S. deindustrialized in the first place.
This chart tells a brutal story: thousands of mining deaths per year, with fatality rates once exceeding 300 per 100,000 workers.
The Great Depression and WWII only made conditions worse.
It took decades of reforms, including the Federal Mine Safety Acts of 1969 & 1977, to bring fatality rates down—but by then, automation, outsourcing, and globalization were already shifting the economy.
Reindustrialization sounds great—until you remember the human cost of the first round.
The real question: How do we bring industry back without repeating history?
Source: CDC
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🇺🇸 THE COST OF INDUSTRIALIZATION—A LOOK BACK AT U.S. MINING DEATHS
Everyone talks about bringing back industry, but few acknowledge why the U.S. deindustrialized in the first place.
This chart tells a brutal story: thousands of mining deaths per year, with fatality rates once exceeding 300 per 100,000 workers.
The Great Depression and WWII only made conditions worse.
It took decades of reforms, including the Federal Mine Safety Acts of 1969 & 1977, to bring fatality rates down—but by then, automation, outsourcing, and globalization were already shifting the economy.
Reindustrialization sounds great—until you remember the human cost of the first round.
The real question: How do we bring industry back without repeating history?
Source: CDC
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/... https://x.com/balajis/stat...
4 months ago
