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I bet it's an engineering marvel though. (lemmy.world)

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[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 days ago

This is very real and has been an issue for years. I remember when I was younger, watching public TV, and I saw a news report about an elderly lady who was forced to sell her home along with the rest of her village so that they could dig up the entire area for coal. At the time it was a big deal, because she took so long to agree, which got media attention. It was incredibly depressing. It felt dystopian.