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account42 15 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Dupes took over the world

> Even now there are old coal mining villages that have never really recovered economically.

Are villages the correct unit to look at there though? Do individuals from these villages now have worse opportunities than they had before?

marysol5 15 days ago [–]

Very much so, nothing was done to even give them opportunities to get work anywhere else either. And then on top of that the Tories destroyed everything else.

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