We're not going to have coal mines, but if the local Worker's Council and Party Cadre want me to move the heavy drill equipment as part of the project to convert fossil fuel power plants into geothermal plants, or mop the floors at the nuclear power plant or whatever, that's cool.
yeah like, coal extraction is evil, but there are large parts of the country that are mired in poverty because the coal jobs they previously relied on just disappeared decades ago and nothing replaced them. how anyone could look at that and think "this is why central planning is bad" is beyond me
The same people will believe all the propaganda about coal miner jobs pushed by the energy lobby.
Money was allocated for retraining the unemployed coal miners a long time ago.
None of it ever reached them.