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Good Culture from the Extraction Business

Michael O'Hare wonders if there is any "society whose basic conventions and value system were formed or greatly altered in a context of extractive industry [mining, "strip farming", logging] that wasn't seriously damaged by it". What about the coal country of West Virginia, Southern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, etc.? In this case, the rise of the coal mining business coincided with the rising union movement, and mine workers were some of the first to sign up for unions because of their terrible working conditions. In addition, the financier class was an alien caste of Wall Street bankers who neglected the needs of the locals.

Drinking Liberally is at Montlake Ale House again, 2307 24th ave E., 8pm until closing. Be there or be ... moderate.

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