Loggers next to logs loaded onto a train, Washington state, USA, ~1920
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Unpopular opinion, all these fucks who got hurt or worse cutting these trees down deserved it.
There are sustainable ways to farm lumber. Clear cutting old growth wasn’t one of them
Yeah, but I don't know that wanting working class folk living payday to payday to die because the higher-ups don't know or care about conservation is reasonable.
Next thing you’re gonna say that Nazi death camp guards were just working class folks living payday to payday. Nah, morality applies all the way down and doing it for a paycheck doesn’t make it okay.
The members of timber dynasties (e.g. wheeler, as well many others) would have deserved it. These laborers rarely had other options but to starve. Ethics under capitalism or whatever.
