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"a machine can't go inside the furnace to bring out the glass" is such a sad statement, those people don't even realise the scope of industrialization and automatization

it's a good reminder of how good you have it, when you watch awareness content like this, don't sweat the small stuff

What I feel is immense salute for these men. They are so responsible to feed their families even risking their own lives to give food to the table.

Everyone keeps saying that there's no more gold to find, or that it takes millions to get even a pound of gold. I prospected and mined for years, finding a lot of gold. Up until I broke my back. I can go to the Smith River, and easily find gold, because I know what to look for in a river, that tells me that a certain spot would have gold. And even at the Klamath River's ocean head, deposits fine gold every year, after heavy rain and floods. You can easily find it by pulling out a shrub that acts like a sive. There's still so much gold to be found, but the state and government regulations, prevent a person from flooding the economy with new gold, platinum and gems. They have all but shut down dredging, which actually cleans out the lead and mercury, left by a couple hundred years of mining, by those who didn't understand the devastation that those metals cause. It has become a crime to possess mercury while panning, or mining private claims. There's still so much gold to be found, and mined.

Seeing him sift through that drain sludge bare-handed made me cringe. I worked in an animal hospital for years and had to clean out some pretty gnarly drains that would accumulate some pretty similar looking sludge.

33:27 / 49:33: I can feel the terribleness of going deep inside. Salute to the video maker. The workers are very brave and hardworking working-class Pashtuns. U can feel their hardship and what it is like to be there. The sad part is the USA, and the Soviets were bombarding the homes of these poor people for 40 years.

Habib from Afghanistan seems like such a good guy. I wish him and his family the best in his new home near the mine.

This is so very sad to watch. These people risk their lives for such little pay. It's a damn shame these mine owners don't pay them enough. Prayers and respect to all of these people who bring these precious and beautiful stones to the world.

I am a miner and prospector in my spare time and it can be gruelling work but after seeing this it makes me appreciate how easy my work is compared to the struggle these people have to go through just to earn a living

It's very heart-wrenching watching these videos as it really brings home what a very inequable world this is, if I could have just one wish it would be that the world is a more equable world where nobody goes hungry or has to do such awful work.

This is Amazing how people risk their lives to get Gems, silver,gold to feed their Families! I wish that I had a Scientific solution to this problem. I pray that someone will find a way for us to recycle materials and make easy and safe for the miners to go into the minds to extract Gemstones. We as human being must find a solution to these problems. We must! I pray🙏🏽

Each tragedy deserves its own video. Blending them together makes it feel less important when every single one of these tragedies needs to end!!!!!!!

Imagine being the laborer that foundthe star of Adam getting paid 3$ a day and then giving it to the mine owners who get even richer , if I was the one who found it I woulda kept it and then sold it myself for a million that woulda been life changing even for us 1st world folk

Geez Louise! And some people here in America think they have , got it soooo bad! It boils down to a few groups of people wanting to have 9 9.9% of the worlds' wealth at the expense of peoples lives, health, as well as to every aspect of our physical world!! Its' ALL ABOUT MONEY. AND POWER! This makes me beyond sad and VERY ANGRY! Peace to All...💜💙💜

Electronic companies should be required to design products with an optimal lifespan as well. Stuff gets thrown away because it’s all junk compared to the older days. Also maybe design more stuff to be upgradeable, and don’t release a halfway new product every 12 months. I guess that would also lay at the consumer’s feet to be content with what they have. But I don’t see that happening.

My respect to all this hardworking people. ❤

Having a job doesn't mean security rather having different investments is the real deal

These people are admirable. They work extremely hard work under inhumane conditions, risking their lives and health every day for very little money. God Bless Them. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

🔥11:09 this is one of the greatest classic skills that people learned on their own sitting near a campfire from artistic gems to samurai swords👏🏽

Without jewellery industry what would these people do? The problem is middlemen not paying market rates, and the issue of the workers having to borrow at high rates to informal lenders (Muhammed Yunus discussed this at length prior his microfinance Grameen bank). But these people have been digging jewels for nobility for thousands to at least the Ice Age. Life has never been easy for most.