jthanson t1_j7qyaw3 wrote on February 8, 2023 at 8:00 PM

That's wonderful news for the people of Ferry County. They will have access to good-paying blue-collar jobs.

BarnabyWoods t1_j7ux0hj wrote on February 9, 2023 at 4:16 PM

Probably not. These aren't sustainable jobs, because mining economies are always boom-bust. The highest-paying jobs will go to people the company brings in from elsewhere. The people of Ferry County will be serving them in restaurants and cleaning their motel rooms. But on the bright side, the people of Ferry County might eventually cash in when the time comes to clean up the mess that gold mines always leave behind. Of course, that depends on whether there's any money left to fund the clean-up.

[deleted] t1_j7smunx wrote on February 9, 2023 at 2:50 AM

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noodlebucket t1_j7t6xsr wrote on February 9, 2023 at 5:43 AM

If you think natural resource extraction "helps blue collar people" you're misled, or disingenuous.

Edit: also the tribes are gonna nope hard on this one. As they should. Or do those people not matter.

jthanson t1_j7snp80 wrote on February 9, 2023 at 2:57 AM

I know. Anything less than insulting the poor, backward, ignorant ruralites in this sub warrants punishment.

I will repent and go out to Enumclaw and insult some hard-working blue collar people as penance.

UncommonSense12345 t1_j7t80bg wrote on February 9, 2023 at 5:55 AM

Ya as someone from a “backwater” county the amount of vitriol towards the people of poorer counties is always very discouraging. Internet people from the city are very “progressively” about their own group/beliefs but so much so of others… smh same can be said for the poor “backwater” people where I’m from too. Seems the divide is only growing bigger and little effort to bridge the gap….

jthanson t1_j7t8ni0 wrote on February 9, 2023 at 6:02 AM

And then the urban sophisticates wonder why they are reviled by us poor, knuckle-dragging slobs out here in the rural areas. It's like the Russian Revolution when the urban Socialists didn't understand why the peasants didn't like them.

Oh, wait—I'm in a rural area. I'm supposed to be one of those poor, uneducated rubes incapable of putting together a coherent sentence. I'd probably better not burst their illusion by referencing Bolsheviks canvassing the countryside looking for support from landless peasants.