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Do you feel as sorry for the folks who lost their careers when the IC engine replaced the horse as you do your family? How about when Walmart replaced Sears? When digital photography replaced film. When plumes and beaver fur on hats went out of fashion and hunters had to find other work? When airplanes displaced passenger trains? When computers replaced clerks?
The difference is that the successors were all big improvements over what they replace. People adopted the new technology voluntarily. They didn't need some bureaucrat pointing a gun at them and shaking them down for the cash to pay for the "new and improved" technology.
That's what the Communists told the Kulaks in 1917.
How much human trauma do you think should be endured by others in service of your family memories?
You're the imbecile causing the trauma. If your "solutions" are so great, then whey do they need to be imposed on us at gunpoint?[/QUOTE]
Those are both excellent points. I wonder whether we will receive an answer.
My family ran on coal. Breathitt County, Kentucky. The mine ran out. We found other things to do. You will too.