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- Limestone is used in everything from cement and tiles to paper- and plastic-making. The Egyptians that mine the haunting white mountains risk their lives and limbs to get it.
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Why Miners Risk Limbs To Carve Mountains Of Limestone In Egypt | Big Business | Business Insider
When it's the minerals inside the stone they're after, it's called a mine. When the rock itself is what they're after, it's called a quarry.
They mention this in the video
when its lime stone its bone giant bone
@@tomstanley7568 Is that some kind of gay code talk?
When the moon hits your eye, like a big a pizza pie, that's amore.
When Frodo finally reached Mordor it was called love
That’s crazy how accurate they are at throwing those bricks and they don’t break and they’re perfectly square. That’s impressive.
Right I thought it was in reverse
They need a basketball team
@@pinchevulpes Agreed! They need a basketball team
@@nothinginparticular6419 I thought that at first too, it does seem like that huh.
@@nothinginparticular6419 i had to rewatch that bit to figure it out haha
As an Egyptian this breaks my heart. I never knew of this and it's not talked about in the media. Thanks for raising this issue
Are there social programs for the disabled in Egypt? (I'm from the US and curious)
@@angelface925 there is but they are decades old and pathetically under paid
@@cannibalwindigo1506 oh man... That's horrible
Dude Media everywhere has become absolute shit. All display the news which their sponsors want them too. We lost independent media in the 1990s I guess. Even in India, The media does debates on issues which cannot be resolved by debates to be frank. Media is an absolute tradegy.
@@angelface925 Yes but you know corruption. Wealthy people get all the money and the poor almost get nothing
Short answer: because they need money and corporations have a monopoly like everything else 🙂
Right??!!??
Insider: look at how bad international capitalistic practices that keep entire countries in poverty are!
Also Insider: that's the "Business" in our name bay-beeee!!
@@sophroniel capitalism and exploitation sound alike I know. kinda like diamonds in countries like Africa when those same diamonds are stolen from a jeweler out here its a crime but since its the spoils from another country we should all call it capitalism. 🙂 I love how business works it doesn't affect me 😌
If you ask the majority of these workers they would say it's a good job. Live outside your bubble and learn.
@@kakrot3 no they wouldn't they'd say it's a good paying job. Because 99% of other jobs won't give them enough to even buy food for the day, but not a "good job" that holds good working conditions/benefits/longevity etc. The title literally states "risk their limbs" tell me who wants to risk their life for a job that can replace them tomorrow? Do you? Are you working in similar conditions to even be applying your opinion?
@@kakrot3 I'll give you a better one. I RECENTLY worked from 5am-11pm in a different country. I got 6$ a day. that was barely enough for food for the day. You tell me now have you ever worked for such a low wage, EVER? And if so was it a good job did you get benefits? "live outside your bubble" and tell me if you can even relate il wait for you to share your experience 🕒
I still can't believe stone bricks can be tossed like that, that high and have them land in a neat stack. It's so surreal.
Anything is possible when you have practiced it for so long
They have good aim
its not very dense btw its a pretty puffy type of stone they are also used to build small shacks like the one u see them eat in source:im egyyptian and seen these irl
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its insane to see something like that in modern world they do it so naturally its because they do it daily ... i only wonder what human could do with a spear 2000years ago how accurate can one be with a balanced spear if trained. In my head imagine someone throwing a spear with the same grace and accuracy but to much larger distance
Closing the mines is ridiculous... If they are working there, it’s because this option is better then the alternatives they have. Taking off an option doesn’t make their life better.
man the EU closed power plants because of "polution" and now we have high electricity prices because we are low on energy. This is how stupid our leaders are
They know the risk and can fix them if they want to. They all could put a dollar in and get glasses and covers for the saws. They haven't so it doesn't seem to be too priority.
@@DubYaJsWorld actually they REMOVED the saw protection, so they could see it while working and cut better.
@@MarceloRodrigues-ff6vc well that tells me they are aware of the risk. If we didn't have OSHA american men would remove all but the most essential safety, and I vmgave seen guys do it too
It was more likely to get rid of competition so they could make more profit.
this mining technique of cutting blocks in place is very efficient, I saw that in Sardinia, unfortunately one of the big mining problem is dust, dust kill more people than accidents but sometimes this disease appear years after so they pass unobserved.
The dust is what horrified me most in this video.
This is just lasy work... They can collect dust with simple fan equipment and just dump somewhere far corner, it will be much better.
@@daiaki1975 sure i'm a mining tecnician and dust collector are not complex or expensive technology... maybe they can reduce a 70% of dust with simple methods like shields around the blade etc... they does not have the culture of safety and i'm not sayng this for criticisms...
@@gfr2023 what you said is literally a criticism, that being said idk why you are afraid to criticise people for doing something sub-perfect
Oh but the WEF say the died of COVID-19
Being as difficult as it is in todays age with techs to mine limestone, imagine how difficult it must’ve been for ancient Egyptians to build the great pyramid out of limestones and granite
Maybe they didn’t build them 🫣
@@eligreg99 AY KEEP THAT ALIEN SHIT OUTTA HERE MOT TRYNA HAVE AREA 5Q VIBES
@@YSF_B28 What if the pyramids are actually…..spheres 😳
@@eligreg99 nah they're all fallic shaped. All main 3, and the 507 or whatever
@Jak Mihoff nah man giants helped them
Everytime I see someone working in conditions like this makes me really appreciate how easy we have it in the US. Prayers for all of them.
Unless you live in middleclass household and have never been exposed to the reality of working class jobs, Americans have it just as bad.
@@ReclusiveEagle You are wrong.
@@ReclusiveEagle
Not remotely comparable, but it’s obvious you just wanted to whine about how hard your life is.....
Lol working class American jobs can be just as bad, maybe you're okay but alot aren't. Slave wages, poor working conditions, and exploitation are rife in the US
@@highcommander2007 tell that to those living in shacks near san francisco lel
I love how buisness insider finds all these motivations and spreads awareness for people to respect these traditions or buisness's
Yet makes it not make sense cos they use imperial antiquated measurements literally no one except the luddites in the usa use
Kinda like Vice , but focused on industry and manufacturing, coupled with the ethics involved.
This is real journalism in my opinion. Going to the place, interviewing the people, focusing on everyday issues (unemployment, working extremely dangerous jobs, etc) plaguing the average person.
Y'all NEED to stop listing foreign wages in USD without any context as to how much buying power these wages have.
It would be better to reveal the daily wage, then provide an example as to what common items have an equal value. That way, it doesn't seem like you're listing the wage in USD just for dramatic effect or shock value. For all we know, $6 could buy you a week's worth of groceries in Egypt. (It doesn't, by the way)
That is not right, so lets pick another way of measuring the cost of living, 1 KG "~ 2lbs" of beef in Egypt costs 10.4 usd now adays.
Than, you, yes. Same with temp, weight, size etc. All I know is that at 110° they're above boiling so must be super human
@@albergerges they should just say most common measurements and use native currency and say something like "xyz in this currency has the buying power of X big macs" because the big mac index is the only international recognised scale
You watched this video and THAT's what your mad about? How about directing your anger to the end sellers here in the developed world that expect to pay nothing for goods and services. We are the slave drivers.
In Egypt 6$ will buy 600 grams of powder milk or a bus ticket to travel 280 km ~ 174 miles, so we aren't talking about much here actually life is quite expensive here compared to the avg wages
Business Insider should create a new series called "So Dangerous"
Honestly, this wouldn’t take much to be brought up to snuff. A few thousand dollars worth of of gear would probably be enough to dramatically improve mine safety. Other than that, implementation of better safety protocols is all that can really be done.
Thank you, these people are making an issue where there is none to little with just the "truck not made for passengers". Laws say one thing, all our pickups in America still disagree, and the passengers often too. Those guys likely safer than being in our pickups! Better dust filtration defintiely. But these hazards are on all jobs like this, amd safety protocols, which they likely hsve without realizing just by how they train each other or is not mentioned here, do still fail.
I was going to say the same thing, honestly aside from a few missing guards and better masks these conditions are pretty normal. No different then other concrete cutting work or quarry work, stone crushing is dusty like aswell.
@@bradd188 I mean those power likes were sketchy AF, but that’s also not something that would be super expensive to fix.
h those sulphur miners they featured could solve half their problems with a winch and some gas masks.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20.
Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
The brick throwing is impressive. That said, I wish there was a way to get them better protective gear and make the cutting safer.
There is. It's that greedy corporations just don't have to implement them since they're not being forced to like they need to.
the company selling lime stone wont wanna pay the setup lol
if they cannot afford a 0.40 USD filter on a reusable 8$ USD respirator (this is the best you can do in this situation, this isnt a bullshit covid mask), then that is crazy that something like that isnt provided in work like this.
Also, I DARE you to visit Egypt. It is not nice to people.
@@hygrometer What do you mean by Egypt not being nice to people?
there is. they can just buy them. lmfao
People forget that laborers were treated very badly for a long time before they banded together in union style. Unions now can be very self serving. But without any threat of union action people would be slaves.
If you read how people were treaded in the early era of industrialization you would be very shocked. Even in the 1920'-30's it was terrible.
can you give me a book to read about this?
They were treated horribly in some instances but you cant say that only unions protected workers. Workers protected themselves by moving to the job that serves them best..... In the industrial revolution, it is common knowledge that working conditions in factories were pretty bad, but what you dont hear is the reason these workers chose to work in those factories is because it was better for them to work in the factory rather than the farms.... Life was alot harder back them and more union action would have caused more harm than good
Unions have basically destroyed this country. You want to know why things are so expensive its because people in unions are paid like $40 an hour to punch a hole into sheet metal. Its not sustainable. Unions are not the way of the future.
@@danielreardon6453 no. Just because something isn’t the worst doesn’t mean it can’t be better. We wouldn’t have weekends or overtime or full-time work without unions. In the US, we had the government send mercenaries and had the army drop bombs on strikers. Worker’s rights are written in the blood of our brave forefathers and foremothers. No one was grateful to die in factory fires or have their scalps ripped off by machine belts. Children were not better off working in factories before the child labor laws fought for by workers. Women getting equal pay was good for everyone, women got the money they deserved and men stopped being passed over for women because you could pay her less.
If you don’t believe in workers’ rights, you’re better be a capitalist. Because if you aren’t, they don’t care. They would happily grind your severed limbs up in the assembly line if it earned a penny more on the stock price.
@@vysharra I never said that unions should not be legally allowed to exist, i believe they should be allowed..... I am not supporting government, possessing a violent army to stop union protests....
Your point about children were not better off working in factories, i think you are completely wrong in this point, maybe for some children it wasnt, but when you see children working in families at a young age, it usually means the family is poor and its either the kids starve, or the kids work and eat...... my mum worked as a kid, she was in a third world nation, i am glad she did work because that allowed her poor family to eat and go to school which allowed my mum to move to a first world nation..... Laws that stop kids from working voluntarily may have good intentions but can seriously harm families.... I support kids working voluntarily, i dont support kids being forced to work........
Also if government forces companies to pay women equally, this harms women and benefits men,
If a woman works harder than a man, then getting paid equally is unjust to the woman........
If a woman cant work as hard as a man and the government forces equal pay, then the women wont be allowed to work for less (sometimes working for less is still better than the alternative which is not to have a job at all)
Also if women should be paid equally for equal pay for equal work..... Then every male sex worker should be paid the same as a woman too (women get paid WAY MORE than a man does in that sector of work)
This is what "competitive pricing" means to most of the world. Corporate monopolies and horrible work conditions
people gotta eat
@@hygrometer right, which is why they suffer slave wages and silicosis.
Instead of blaming corporations maybe blame their society's which has encouraged overpopulation while not encouraging education or innovation. We can do the same thing in the U.S. much more effetely because we aren't overpopulated to the point were manual labor is worth nothing.
@@colin8696908 you can actually do both
love that none of you ever give any other alternatives to how it should be done. Just "this type of economy is bad. lets tear it down and restart with _______*chirp*_________".
BUT IMO, this is slave labor. Nothing more. Not corporate monopolies at ALL. Just pure slave labor.
Respect for these people and all the miners all over the world who sacrifice their life which makes our life easy.
Sadly no one wants to show respect towards hard working Men these days. 🤷🏻♂️
We're on our own. So... Bros United Forever - BUF. 🙏
Agreed with you 100 %.
All do respect & consideration for this amazing people.
As we have seen, they are sacrificing their life for support and make life better for their own families, children & others.
...... Many times i am asking my self : why couldn.t my mom sleep just once with Rokeffeller ??!??! ..... Just jokkin, of course.
Respect them by fighting the system so their children don't have to do the same, at the very least. They don't need sympathy, they need change.
@@totoro5421 exactly. Thank you
@@Rishabh-Dev-N3 u want respect make a TikTok its basically just people kissing each other's butts over dumb little dances or normal things people who post about their jobs are like superstars to those worthless people go on case the clout
"You must be sure of the right electrical wire, so it should be exposed." - Yeah we figured out how to not die from this a long time ago.... it's called labeling. Nothing fancy needed either, you could literally label a wire with pieces of string...
Look at 0:14 the way he throws that brick and the way it lands. Like a boss 😎 also 6:01
I don't need to be an expert to see how easy it would be to properly protect these workers from most of the harm. It's a shame that they won't get any of those, gloves, masks or properly covered machines because of profit. This is modern slavery..
What you call modern slavery. Is known as worker's exploitation and it's been going for centuries. Therefore, there's nothing modern about it. Just imagine the huge profits the big companies involved in limestone make on the back of this cheap labor. It's horrendous. Having said that, a lot of people still believe men were created by a mercifully god!!!!
I really wish the mine owners would provide these amazing workers with proper PPE!
Most don't wear have you seen coal miners?
Wow, I can’t believe the machines are heavy AND loud, that’s insane Business insider
Clearly written by someone who's never had a hard day's work in their lives
@@CountDoucheula interesting take man😂
@@CountDoucheula and yours must have been written by someone who’s never been around any construction equipment in their lives
@@battlebirdbricks8892 not you obviously, you mouthy twat.
I used to be a limestone miner. It’s a difficult job, I left to mine coal.
I've worked with this mineral and handled it with a total not reaching over an hour or two in my life and it is horrendous these blokes are doing something more than most will understand
Everyone in America needs to watch some of these videos. We take a lot of things we have here for granted.
We had things that prevented modern slavery, like labor unions that made better working environments, and kept skilled labor wages higher than minimum wage. It kept a strong middle class and prevented the religious right from taking over. (Until now, the last 40/50 years).
The woke would probably tell them they should take off the hoods so they don't look like the kkk
@@elmerkilred159 and now you HAVE to have kids also. They want all the so beloved uneducated to buckle down and follow the plan so they can be this guy in the video. What do you do when you have kids? What do you do when you're forced "to do the right thing". You're nothing but a slave to your responsibilities now, and your bargaining went to zero. And you can only dig deeper now, you can't run forever. Not with so much to carry.
Yea but try have a modern day green haired lefty do any sort of labor.
@@hmp5718 why don't people in wheelchairs run in marathons? Lazy bastards...
It’s amazing to learn today that pyramids used to be white and with golden tops 🦃
Same thing in Canada these mines facilities dealing with cutting and packaging stone. People injured constantly loosing hands. I was 18 working making 50k per year. Tore my shoulder picking up 200lb granite and limestone rocks
Which mine?
Same thing in Canada? A hundred years ago, maybe.
Imagine trying to cut 12 million tons of block weighing 50 tons each and cut to precision. Then imagine doing it 15 thousand years ago
ALIENS
bro youre on crack the Egyptian blocks were made by many thousands of skilled laborers paid by Pharaoh Kufu and his sons after him, it was 5000 years ago too bub stop lying to people, they were fine stone masons to be admired and lived a good life of beer and bread, they served their god and made beautiful things
@@andrewburnett8743 I wanna believe aliens so you’re smoking the crack good sir 🤷🏽♂️
Nobody did it 15000 years ago. Try with ~5000
@@andrewburnett8743 what proved it to be khufus pyramid? The largest pyramid was a little different than the rest.
Much respect, I'm a concrete cutter. My blades range from 24" to 83".
Mason here. Largest saw blade I've ever used is 14" and that's already too big lol
Who asked?
@@bniisantos your momma
@@SableTwoSeven GOTEEM LMAOOO 🤣🤣🤣
It's crazy to think that all of that limestone is fossilized coral.
the thumbnail looks like an album cover
I don't understand what people do to deserve this lifestyle. I'm grateful to be born and live where I am.
Which is where
You'd think if the economy depends on this export that the gov would assist in making it safer... instead of closing mines bc someone got hurt provide better protections so they can do their job... you'd think so anyway? : /
Id bet they closed the ones that didn't pay the bribe.
Lol, imagine how quickly this would close if the government was involved. People are fine let them be.
@@Patriot3 did you not watch the video? It looks like there are dozens of small improvements the government could force the mine owners to do that would save lives
@@evankelley1204 They're being paid six bucks a day, forcing those sorts of regulations on operations like these would put most of these guys out of work.
That's if you think they actually have a government, Egypt is a failed state.
The problem is there are no actual mining companies involved so it small scale local mining.
Mining companies and regulation would bring in diamond tipped rope to quarry rock.
Egyptian gov is more focused on building a new mega city every administration
There is companies dummy
Am sure that the illegal mines have corrupt police or politicians
The Egyptian government lacks both the funds and expertise to make a difference.
@@samsonsoturian6013 do you live in Egypt to. Decide. If. They lack the funds. And. Expertise. Dummy ?
@@samsonsoturian6013 ?
Good business plan, low overhead, little to no employee expenses, no HR department.
0:14 that throw was nice.
My God! I really can't imagine working in these conditions for many years. I'm never going to complain about work ever again.
How mighty white of you!
See being a stripper isn’t always that bad
My mom, an immigrant to the US toiled hard here and did not complained. Long hours. I asked why she kept working and didn't complain. She said "this is a piece cake compared to the type of work I used to do in the farm fields in El Salvador."
its relative. life isnt a guarantee, nor is it fair. Everyday is a gamble.
The saddest part is that it would cost like 5000$ tops to make that mine a lot safer like covers for the blades and protective gears for the people working. But I guess 5k on designer clothes makes more sense for the owners............
Wow, that's a pretty raw deal, especially for the guys doing this work long-term. I wonder if the quarry owners really are making a killing, or if individual owners are running on such razor thin margins that paying more or buying safety equipment (etc.) would force them to raise prices, and then customers would just buy from their competition instead.
Fundamentally, the real problem appears to be that there are so many manual laborers living in a place with so few resources, industries, and economic opportunities, and few if any have the mind (or maybe access) to improve things, learn something new, or move somewhere else. If there were fewer men around willing to do this job for so little, all of the quarry owners would have to offer better pay/benefits to attract workers, even if it meant raising limestone prices...and it sounds like those prices deserve to be a bit higher, considering how hard and dangerous this work is.
There are dangerous jobs everywhere, even the US, but at least here the workers have enough options (even now) that danger comes at a wage premium. It seems like the quarry workers don't place a lot of value on safety though, based on preferring the blades without coverings. It's a mentality that we have trouble comprehending, but it may come from a cultural mentality that "life is cheap" or something.
Quarry owners make a ton of money supplying cement manufacturers with limestone. Extremely lucrative if you own the mine.
@@topnineshow It's basically a combination of near nonexistent worker rights and a lack of alternatives (stemming in large part from the former)
When they need 20 people to do a job, and there's 100 of you trying to get the spot, it's very difficult to even suggest an increase in pay because suddenly you're out of the running. Much better to grab a guy who doesn't complain.
@@Hakasedess add to that the possibility that this is already one of the highest paying jobs in town (better than farming, etc) and there is an even more difficult case to be made for raising the wages.
@@kainanshaw659 Seeing as it at least appears to be basically subsistence wages as is, I'd wager the other options actually pay less than you need to support anything beyond your own literal survival, or they're already fully staffed.
Lack of regulation is all that's allowing such practices to prevail. Had govt mandated regular inspections for Health, Safety & Environment, conditions would be safer, wages higher & economies booming. But that's not what govts are interested in, they're there only to safeguard the Owning Class.
Honestly, the lack of a metall cover for the saw "because otherwise we don't see where we cut" and exposed electrical wires "to see which one is which" are just terribly stupid sources of life-threatening danger. Mine owners should also provide the bare minimum of protective gear.
The video said that the cutting machines used to have coverings, but they fell off years ago. So now, they have their blades exposed. They changed their mind about it too.
@@ping5825 a new guard could literally be fabbed up in a hour, with sight holes to see the blade and everything. They could just refuse to work until it’s fixed and it would be.
@@davidreynolds731But if they refuse to work, how will they earn money to live?
@@ping5825 The mine owners still need to make money, they will get it fixed fast to get them back to work
@@davidreynolds731 ok
Commentary: "Machines are heavy and loud..."
Ok, thank you woman.
Makes you appreciate where you live and what you do...That's a life of toil...
Honestly the face protection looked like if it was another planet or like star war. I never seen this before and I learnt something new. Thank you
I worked in an archaeological project in that region. they also cut pieces the size of a shipping container, those are scattered alongside the military road, reminding of truck accidents that happened on those dangerous streets. in some areas where the limestone is processed you dont see anything but smoke from a desert full of chimneys.
That limestone dust is some dangerous stuff. Its too bad they dont have proper protection to protect themselves against it
What wasn't disclosed was how much the limestone blocks sell for, and how much the company profits from modern day slave labor.
narrator already tell viewers from the start. well, only small part of it. $6 per day for single person.
@@lakraknjeprak2536 BUT, WHY wasn't the sales price per block, or the profits of the company disclosed?
@@elmerkilred159 because they are freelancer. they don't belong in any company as an employee.
Seeing that Egypt has so much and there is illegal mining then it is probably not worth much. If it was worth a lot it would’ve been guarded and protected by someone.
These aren't kefalas, these are ordinary Masri. And the middle man is probably just a struggling small time trader too, because if there were big companies involved they'd bring in diamond tipped cutters and proper safety equipment and someone who knows what they're doing.
If it's this hard cutting solid limestone bricks in modern times. Imagine how hard it was cutting solid blocks for the pyramids 🤔
Real men
Doing real work.
In the developed world, the labor movement began with ALL workers banding together to demand change. That requires a high level of solidarity, class loyalty and a willingness to endure boycotts for long periods. It was tough, many faced starvation, some people even got killed by police, but in the end, they won!
Some geographies and cultures are meant for living in a global trade system. The US was blessed with a large abundant environment from which they could slowly expand. These countries need a drastic reduction in population. But their populations more than tripled in the last 50 years from cheap grain production created by the Rockefeller foundation.
unfortunately egypt isnt like that, its a dictatorship and people are scared. people know that just the thought of standing up and saying sthing against the gov in public would get them jailed and deprived of all they’re rights to say the least. the current leader would have no problem jailing sn entire grp of ppl and calling it “instigating acts of terror”
There's one factor of major importance you are missing out which makes your analysis pretty much useless : religion. Shame since everything you mention is true but does not apply to the Arab world. These people are raised to believe that god is the one who decides on every thing and therefore, revolting yourself against your condition( also created by god) equals having an argument with God.religious principles are used by the ruling, capitalist classes to subdue working classes into submission and poverty leaving the masses absolutely powerless because they live and die poor and assuring the status quo keeps going as the ruling classes get richer and richer through liberalism, the development of high tech and the increasing demography and so on. The only hope for these poor workers is to seek shelter in Europe. By doing so, they would acheive two goals : make a better life for themselves and their families and last but not least spread Islam across the world in other words, serve their god towards the fantasized domination first and then the ultimate illusive exclusivity of Islam. 150 euros a month is what would most workers get in Egypt if not less. If you raised their wages, the news would soon spread across the country and everyone would start asking themselves : why them, why not me. Somewhere down the line, retailers would start putting their prices up knowing costumers could afford to pay and before you known it, people would struggle same as before. I
IT's a doggy question. Some pretend they have the answer. Personally I believe there's no solution in a society based on consumption, production and money. There's opportunities to make it big but at the expense of the masses.
Eventually the bosses got back on their feet somewhere down the line :they developed technology and machinery and freed themselves from labor forces. Many just moved over to the third world where labor is for free or just about.
@@tuckerbugeater Dude do you realize what you are even saying. The problem is there are "too many people living" at these are. So whats your solution shall we kill of some egyptians that are living suboptimally. Even if its a low wage they are still making a wage, we should be proud of their work, not demean them say there are too many of you thats why you are having this problem.
No respirators, no blade guards, no hearing protectors. Unbelievable.
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2020 Limestone Industry at 73 Billion, and yet the people responsible for its existance earn like 0.0001% of it. What a world.
I work in the Auto industry (worth 82 billion in just the United States) I live in the US and make less that $35k a year which is basically almost unable to provide the basics for myself living alone. Wheres my pity?
Good breakfast in Cairo can cost just $1.30 which is expensive working for 60 cents per hour.
So why triple the population in the last 50 years with such high cost of low quality living?
@@tuckerbugeater they don't believe in contraceptives
they don't live in Cairo
@@6kbps yh but i can guarantee $6/day for working like a mule and risking ur life isnt enough. its like the bare minimum to live life as the poorest class in egypt, coming from someone thats lived there
@@jubasniper254ck3 they have more purchasing power
The fact big companies haven't taken over should be shocking. $6 is better than Indian workers 🤷🏿♂️ credit to dirty/, deadly job
I couldn’t imagine. I’m so soft and privileged. I think I’d die before I could do that job.
That’s some impressive aim, they should get a team 👀.
Because they have to feed their families !?!?
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Seems like all the risk is brought on and there are many ways they can be more safe.
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There are a lot of people complaining about their government not regulating this industry and trying to protect these guys here in the comments, and I sympathize, but that's a really bad idea. That would put most of these guys out of work, and seriously damage an evidently quite valuable industry within Egypt. They don't need more regulation, they need more capital investment (for better equipment, transportation, ppe, and stuff like that) and easier access to global markets.
It breaks my heart to know that they risk their lives to make our lives comfortable and easy. O God, protect them while they work.
If I were a millionaire I would send them new equipment,safety gear and set up a retirement system for them. I guarantee you they are some of the most humble men you’ll ever meet.
youd would be a millionaire for about a week I guess then. the reason you dont have a million dollars is that its obvious you have no idea how money works
Can y’all do a cotton farm please??
Wish I could go around providing Ppe to all the people in less fortunate country I feel like we over look them not having ppe and would make it far less dangerous
Tough job! But the way they perfectly toss the cut bricks onto the truck is impressive.
Unfortunately egypt doesnt even crack the top 5 for limestone exporting countries. I was hoping that they might be able to unionize so that work place safety improves. But the reality is if they did that they might just lose their jobs altogether and the industry dies.
Those two last sentences really got me.
Just think in the Egyptian times how they were doing it. Just incredible
This vs limestone mining in Indiana and other states would be interesting.
I'm sure its more brown people being severely underpaid
At end of the day it's the west Europe, north American countries that's making fortune at the suffering of poor around the world .
Have you ever heard of China? If not that explains why you might think that but they are actually the greediest and most ruthless we have ever seen and the belt and road initiative is just them debt trapping poor countries and exploiting their resources. Welcome to reality
Umm. The miners in this video are a local mining operation providing limestone for the Egypts new mega cities. Also China has way more of a exploiting presence in China now. Look at Vices newest video on China and New Guyana.
@@vyros.3234 the west and USA are the main inventors of new technology and it's these countries order China to make the stuff at the cost of peanuts either way the western are making the killing.
Enjoy the nice little limestone walkway going into your pool house... This is the cost
S/O to Runescape the only reason I truly know what Limestone is
This has the same dangers as any trade . As a framer I work around exposed blades , high temperatures and uncomfortable conditions . Just pay attention and maintain your equipment and you'll be fine .
4:08 lol their logic for not having a blade guard, and having exposed live wires is so funny.
That electrical safety clown show is a pretty damn obvious violation of basic worker safety. Just get proper connectors and color code them or something if people can't read. Human life is worth nothing to these owners and bosses.
Your definition of funny is quite different from mine.
whats next? not usingeye protection, so that "you can see what you are cutting"?
this is so heartbreaking.
@@JackDespero maybe if you only understand one definition of the word 'funny'
These are hard workers. They deserve more than any CEO of the modern world. May the creator bless them with unimaginable wealth and blessings
Seeing the limestone packed on the truck bed I can't help but think about how the ancient Egyptians cut and hauled off huge pieces of the stone.
Aim of those throwing bricks guys 💀
Yoooo fr 😫😂 im like i cant even throw a basketball. These mf throwing bricks perfectly wtfff lol
This could be done so much more efficiently.. WHY.
Money :3
Cheap labor
@@makeart5070 Duh. Im not even debating the human life factor. They don't care. They could be making so much more money. With a good side effect of not killing all their good workers.
@@DadShark It better to do it a different way less workers and less medical issues and accident and more production
@@chinookh4713 yeah but are you going to pay for that?
Please use metric system along side with the american standard, it helps other to understand better
Just the other day, I watched a video where there was a Gen-Z girl in tears after her first day at work and her 40hr week...at an office...in a city..in the USA. This film should be required viewing for every American college student before their first classes.
whenever they say wages they should at least mention the local wage. I have friends with College degrees making just $6 a day. that's normal in the Philippines, middle east, south America, etc.
It's not great, but these places create jobs and pay what their government demands
Foreign companies are leaving the Philippines for much cheaper labor in other Asian countries. So that people in the west can buy cheap clothing, more affordable cars and other stuff low income earners cant afford, so if anything, it's the First world's need for inexpensive stuff that drives these companies into seeking countries willing to accept Companies who want cheap labor
@@katyagrad3704 100%. I guess I just don't like the framing, especially when export business labor is such a monstrous issue. Pretty horrific in places like Xinjiang but it's a problem everywhere.
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Verry Intrested & Intresting Video.
Thank you.
LIVE ARE HARD THERE!
Good that media reached there and it's not everywhere
"And they only have cloth masks...." Aren't "just cloth masks" good enough to stop COVID, why wouldn't they stop dust?
The cloth masks used during COVID were to protect other people from exhaled particles. Go outside on a cold day and put a mask on, see how little water vapour you see in comparison to not wearing one.
It's almost like there is a difference between occasional exposure to low density virus particles vs standing in a cloud of limestone dust all day every day. Weird.
Mine owners should respect their workers more and stop treating them like peasants
They ARE peasants…, and being kept as such by the mine owners, for the mine owners benefit.
God bless you all men of destiny. Across the world, different land people and culture, same struggles is what unites us.
For me the way they were throwing those stones perfectly, it solved a who built the pyramid mystery. Period.
The construction and hard work ethic comes from their ancestors who build the pyramids. They work the hardest.
Those masks are cool, and everything looks like they are on a diffrent planet.
Most likely they do next to nothing for the fine silica dust which is slowly killing the workers.
You're also on a different planet. Keep off the weed, you're being talking nonsense.
It's people like these that I want to start a fundraiser for. Nothing special just PPE at the low tier and updated machines at the high tier.
Do an honest piece on American miners. It's all hard work. We must be thankful for such hard working people.
i doubt that would fit the 'message'
The rich get richer and the poor just suffer....nothing has changed in thousands of years.
That's insane. I hope in future they end up being able to find better jobs/quality of life than this and that this kind of job become 100% made by machines.
as long as these area's are overpopulated with uneducated people that will never happen. If you want safer working conditions the first thing you need to do is reduce the available labor pool.
They live in a desert not a whole lot of development,shoveling sand is probably the next best thing.
Another 1st world entitled take on events in countries you know nothing about. Its like when people push for womens rights in Afghanistan, they just dont care that is not their culture
its crazy those blades have to be resharpened multiple times a day. and here we are in america using a Diamond blade that will probably last 10x longer and does not need sharpening ..it sharpens itself :D technology GAP is crazy
Same system followed in our area kerala for cutting laterite stones.
With the amount of money "Business Insider" spent filming this they could have bought all those guys proper masks to prevent them from breathing the dust. And they rightly should give those men a share of the revenue from this TH-cam video the men are featured in.
I think they didn't do interviews without giving anything in return (logically). Surely they (TH-cam Channel Owner) give them donation already before doing those interviews.
How much dit you pay to watch this?
Okay let's say Business Insider did what you asked. Their new gear will wear out eventually. Do you expect them to come back and buy more gear? I bet you were that kid in school who didn't contribute to the group project, but always had ideas.
It is easy to tell others to give away their money but not your own. You represent what is wrong with young people. Let take these people or those people money to give it to everyone but not your money.
@@Lickzalot Wow, TH-cam made this person's comment saying I was a bad kid in school a "Highlighted reply." LOL!
Instead of building a massive capital that’s just a vanity project, maybe the government of Egypt could do something about conditions like these around the country.
The new capital is a must the capital has reached its max capacity decades ago so its urgent
@@peerlesscultivator6873 Or really, build a new city not a new capital. It’s really a must, the octagon the largest military administration building larger the pentagon for a country that has the same military budget as Italy. That’s just one example.
@@exploringtheplanetsn I couldn’t care less what about intricacies I’m just saying they need the city otherwise Cairo will collapse
Don’t talk on behalf of Egyptians if you don’t know anything about Egypt. The capital is a must, Cairo is an overpopulated mess and it will get worse if a more cities aren’t built.
@@Masregypt6203 over 16 new cities are being built are those a must too? oh yh forgot u cant say otherwise unless u wanna get thrown in jail till ur dead
That guy throwing bricks has aimbot
$73 billion, and they get paid $6 a day.
I wish I could say I was surprised by their pitiful pay, but I never have been. Miners work hard, dangerous jobs, risking their lives, and their pay is always low...while those at their desks selling the item get all the profits.