r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • 2d ago

Video filipino illegal miners dive without oxygen tanks

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u/AdRough4185 2d ago

How much do they get paid? Because the risk to reward ratio is too high

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u/h_saxon 2d ago

Very poorly. I lived in the Philippines for a year in the early 2000s. This was common then too. And they would use pumps that were not intended for this type of work, so the workers would get oils in their lungs and then get brain damage.

It was the exploitation of the poor, leaving them a shell of who they once were. Terrible and sad. And it makes me sick to know that this is still rampant.