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Comment by kryogen1c | Hacker News Reader

I've started implementing a rule in my life: if the entire conversation is unsurprising and predictable, don't have it.

NPR thinks stronger regulations could have raised health of workers? Color me not interested.

A more honest headline I'd be interested in reading: negative health implications worth raising national cost of living for this industry

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I've long had a rule in my life: "When someone can only accept a conversation or submit to an idea if it is framed in ways that specifically impact them, then they're most likely not in possession of any idea or perspective worth sharing in the first place."

If you're angry that a publication addresses a human problem on a human level because, it seems, you're upset about what fractional cents of cost it would have added per ton of coal on the market? You're not only frighteningly devoid of empathy, but you're also doubly wasting your time by reading the article then complaining about it here.

The misguided belief that "if it can't be counted, it doesn't count" lies at the heart of all structural social conflicts. When complex reality is overcompressed into digestible, uniform units of account, whatever values fall outside the perception model is discounted to zero and lost.

I see the same property at the heart of the theory of disruption.

Part of me thinks a safety first, collectively owned and organized coal mine would be a hell of a fun thing to try and create.

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