It's so soul crushing to see how often the hard working people who make all these industries possible get the least out of them. They risk the most for the smallest return..
@@1Slamalama1my nephew mines copper here in the US, does not own the mine, puts in long hours and just bought himself a new F250 thanks to overtime. Then there’s my wife’s Norwegian cousin who just retired from being a truck driver at age 55. His place is hytte (cabin) is in southern coast of Norway and he’s taken me fishing in Sweden for cod. It’s not just “simple economics” fella. It’s exploitation.
I think the dirty secret Americans don't like being faced with is that our way of life and standard of living is based on the exploitation of people and resources all over the world.
@@thelostone6981 Retirement age in Norway is 65 though, not sure if he retired extremely early. Truck drivers have a decent pay, but they can get a lot of extra pay. If they are doing long-hauls (international) they drive for days and they can't just leave their truck halfway to Germany and go back home, so then they might have to be away from their family for a week. They get more depending on what they transport. But unlike say Indonesia, they need a high-school education or long experience and follow a ton of regulations. So truck drivers that drive stuff into Norway, might get paid less than the Norwegian ones doing the same job, but guess what they probably have half the regulations and requirements. Every damn winter foreign trucks come in to Norway without winter tires (required by law), thinking they were gonna cheat system until they inevitably slip on ice. So if the IQ is that low to be a truck driver in foreign countries, I think it's good that they are paid well here and I don't see how that is exploitation. That is how it is supposed to be. However there is plenty of jobs even in Norway that pay exploitative wages like nurses, farmers and so on.
too many intermediaries, workers like those get fucked because they have no capital and can't organize, they can only sell at whatever price they are given to feed themselves, but make no mistake, their labour line the pockets of countless middlemen. I'm not saying these intermediaries add no value at all, but given the imbalance in information and negotiating power, they still get a massively unfair share of the wealth
Make no mistake... $480 dollar to Indonesian Rupiah is 7.7 million... And that's a lot for them... I'm not from Indo but the amount $480 is worth of at least 2 months of minimum wage of a worker... So yep, it can definitely feed his family for sure...
You need to count for "Mc Donald Index" or something similar. Everything in Indonesia is cheaper, but the income is also smaller. 200 US$ is enough for average life in Indonesia. Even many GPs often have around 400-500 a month. Of course, the story changes when we need imported goods, like cars or phones. But 200 is enough to survive on local commodities.
Hi there, Brian I live in India and we find this wood in tons in coal mines. My grandfather used to drive coal trailers to carry them to factories for processing. He used to say that it was a huge loss to the coal corporations. Petrified wood consists mostly of wood converted to quartz which doesn't burn at all and is thrown away or often workers take good specimens home for use . Once he told us that a huge petrified tree( probably was Himalayan cedar as identified from the fossilized leaves) was found . It was to be thrown away. But grandpa brought that huge stump and got a table built from it and a couple chairs. Nowadays, it is illegally shipped to the international market, and excavation of this stuff is banned.....
Mining amber here in Poland is done with a really high pressure water stream, pieces of petrified wood often comes along with it. It's depressing too see such poor working conditions. My heart goes to everyone there.
too many intermediaries, workers like those get fucked because they have no capital and can't organize, they can only sell at whatever price they are given to feed themselves, but make no mistake, their labour line the pockets of countless middlemen. I'm not saying these intermediaries add no value at all, but given the imbalance in information and negotiating power, they still get a massively unfair share of the wealth
They dont exactly do the shipping either. And as he said, its not as if they add no value, but in what place is it fair that the person risking his life gets $20 but the person selling the table gets $20,000@@khangto7886
It's valuable because fossils are rare and difficult to obtain, not because it was a drop in the bucket of a container ship. The most labor intensive aspects of any given enterprise are typically deflated in cost by those that control an industry. It's like an upside down pyramid. It's done to prop up consumerism in service economies as a mechanism of social control. A person can see that everywhere if they bother to look.
@@YokoFuongAnh I wish they did but I don't think they do. i remember a piece about a middle eastern potter a while back who was going out of business because of poor local business demand, and the video had tons of people wanting their wares and clamoring to buy them internationally because of the BI video, but someone commented back after a while that the place went out of business shortly after the documentary was filmed. if BI was paying these people even a fraction of what american/european interviewees get paid then I doubt the business would have shut down.
There was once a group of people who went to Indonesia in search of a certain wood to make high-quality violins, but when they got there, they cried because the wood was burned for cooking. Handmade crafts are very cheap here, as few people want them. That's why making furniture is the best option.
@@itoxotaxatix compared to where i live for a $3800 i can get a simple hardwood table set with some carving on it.. which feels liek a scam. but i guess its where the buyer/seller are doing business at that makes the price of it
@@iraqi00channel00 even just a solid quality maple or oak or something is like 5k depending on who made it and how well its furnished. 3800 for some 200m year old rock? what?
Always been that way. Its what countries like Russia and China use to make countries dislike the global order and it works because its a fair criticism
As an Indonesian, I need to remind everyone that MANY people here in third world country lives in FAR worse situation, doing much worse job with much worse reward. The reason why he looks happy is that he IS getting paid A LOT for Indonesian standard. Compared to many people, he is actually doing a genuinely good job and living in a decent condition. Indonesian is naturally humble people and always grateful for any goodness in the world, even in an unfortunate life condition, because that's what our culture and religion (Islam) taught us. Always be grafetul for everything you have, because none of our riches, no money and no treasure will be carried to the afterlife. The only light in our grave is the kindness we did while we live in this world, and that's the basic common teaching here on Indonesia. Which is why most people don't complain and accept their poor life, because life can always get worse, so we should be grateful for what we have.
Indonesian moss agate is my fav gemstone and it is the most beautiful scenic agate to me. These people work hard mining this stuff and don't get near the credit they should.
I met a guy on Facebook I buy moss agate from who is in Indonesia. The ones I pick out look sort of like a split section of a forest. Kind of like an ant farm.
"$60 half minimum wage in Indonesia" . Nah the minimum wages is $308. It's crazy to know that people that live on same island as me work really hard and with very high risk.
Australian coal mines in the Bowen & Stuart Basins all full of the stuff. As well as petrified leaves imprinted in the fault lines of rock, like a perfect black and white 'stamp' of various leaves, ferns etc. Entire petrified trees are routinely seen in the rock (strata) above the coal seams. (overburden) But sadly it is all simply destroyed by the large earthmoving equipment and loaded into trucks and sent to the tip face to be dumped, buried and forgotten as though it is no different to the other rock covering the coal seams. Extraordinary sight seeing the material falling away from a dig face and seeing the branches of a tree, made from rock, slowly emerge and hamg in the air, before being destroyed as the bucket of the loading unit grabs another scoop from that area. Stuff is surprisingly heavy too. Attempts to put pieces aside for retrieving later by light vehicle are usually fruitless as the pieces put aside are usually discovered to be far to heavy to lift by hand. Such a shameful waste
This is why I always stay away from any luxurious stuffs. Most of the time, the core ingredients of those things are acquired in such a dangerous way and the workers get almost nothing compare to the end market valuation. It just doesn't make sense to me.
Elly appears to be relatively happy, despite his work and living conditions. If not happy, then, at least good natured. I think someone that can afford those high end pieces, could probably afford to go directly to the miners to shop for what they want. This would allow the miners to see a bigger piece of the profits to upgrade their working conditions. I'm guessing even after arranging for shipping and finished production the buyer would save money. A vacation written off their taxes as a business expense. A travel agency could book specific buying tours to wherever and whatever their wealthy clients are interested in.
I thought the same, then remembered my brother had to help me out of a tunnel we dug as kids. It was about a metre deep and two metres long. Nearly flaked out down there. We found all sorts of sand layers
All support to this man and others like him everywhere. What's saddening is always witnessing individuals striving and toiling, only for others to reap the greater benefits.
200 Million dollars of petrified wood in arizona is actually nothing in the scale of the world of commodities, i know must of us won't ever see even a million dollars or close but its cause monopolies exist and people who have the power to change the world don't to better us as a whole. My 95 year old nana says it "you can't take money with you so why not benefit those around you" and if we all thought like this the world would be different place
_"you can't take money with you so why not benefit those around you"_ Tell your nana that the government already takes around 40% of my money (income/property/sales tax) and literally gives it away to people that do nothing for themselves.
I live in India and we find this wood in tons in coal mines. My grandfather used to drive coal trailers to carry them to factories for processing. He used to say that it was a huge loss to the coal corporations. Petrified wood consists mostly of wood converted to quartz which doesn't burn at all and is thrown away or often workers take good specimens home for use . Once he told us that a huge petrified tree( probably was Himalayan cedar as identified from the fossilized leaves) was found . It was to be thrown away. But grandpa brought that huge stump and got a table built from it and a couple chairs. Nowadays, it is illegally shipped to the international market, and excavation of this stuff is banned.....
Dude was hiding the pain behind his laughter you could see it on his face at the end when he was saying the wood he mines everyday is too expensive for him to have in his home.
Mad respect for the miner and wood worker. They provide their family a decent life with their diligence. Like this video explain, casualty on this mining operation is exist but a rare case.
I find small pieces in the creeks and such. Never would have guessed people search for it and dig it up for a living. Crazy af, I put that shit in my flowerbeds
It's indonesia. Ppl often talk about amazon rainforest. But they forgot that indonesia is like second or third mosr biodiverse region on earth. So many trees. So many fossilized organism of course. And coal.
It’s heartbreaking I’m majoring business management at university. I hope after graduating, i could do the business that help people and make the world becomes a better place
That's the dilemma. Just as BI explained the mining operation most likely illegal and the land they mined is leased by the owner combined with low paycheck they received, they couldnt afford proper mining gear let alone mineshaft reinforcement as the mine could be raided by authorities for illegal mining operation making them greatly at loss.
Unfortunately doesn't work like that. My parents do online retail, it's very difficult to just set up a listing and make profit. Plus it requires experience and knowledge of the market. Supply lines span continents. Without capital and knowledge you can't do it.
Nothings stopping anyone from taking a vacation there and buying directly from them. The reason its 10 times more expensive here is because the demand is low and shipping prices are high.
Business Insider, if you make these people aware of how much their products should be worth and make an effort to start helping them get a connection with a direct seller, you'll make a big difference instead of just featuring them in your videos.
will be sold for more than what they sold it for is a huuuuge understatement , they buy that piece for 450$ and sell the whole thing for like 150-200k or cut it up and sell it for even more, thats an astronomical mark up
“Dug these mines himself…..with the help of his coworkers.” Let’s hear that in a different scenario. I drove myself to work. With help from the bus driver
Worked in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. near the river.. tons of petrified wood there. Though those pieces were smaller and ranged to only 30-40 millions years old. I have a bunch of pieces in my office. Very cool
12:43 A very fascinating sight. A tree that had lived millions of years ago and then toppled. But it "still lives", in petrified form, through the earth's long history since then and reaching into our time. And it will still be around long after all of us are gone.
Honestly its fair to pay the owner of the land a cut of what you dig up, but can we talk about how they get paid 480$ for FOUR TONS of wood that is sold for WAY more? Thats the part I dont get.
a cool channel idea would be to buy these types of items in shops, then trace it back to who ACTUALLY made it and pay them properly for what they did. Like some Mr. Beast style stuff
I used to work for cb2 , and we sell these type of petrified wood and its often made in in Indonesia. Now seeing where it actually comes from and hows its made . They odten sold for 80 - 100 ish dollars Glad i never brought it .
imo, one of the reason is Indonesia still doesn't know how to treat their natural resource by using technology. so they use their human resources to get the natural resource. this kind of job actually just not in Indonesia, i heard that so many people risks their life to get natural resource on Africa. okay, we can stop this kind of job but after this, where will they search their job? with 'limited human resource' in this digital era, it's hard for them to adapt. this is dilema. i just hope that they will get better soon :(
This dude is a beast, no real shoes at any moment that could collapse on him. Worked with a Hispanic dude who picked cases in the freezer with no gloves, he wore freezer gear with regular shoes on so he could move faster. Pulled 2000 cases a night on a double jack
Shouldn't these rare tree fossils be donated to scientists and museums to be, you know, STUDIED instead of being turned into MORE USELESS FURNITURE FOR THE ULTRA RICH? And as an addition why AREN'T SCIENTISTS reaching out to this guy to study the wood?
What he says and what the subtitle says is different. What he actually said was: "Saya juga kurang tahu itu, kurang tahu. Kurang paham itu lah" which roughly translates as "I don't really know. I don't even understand it"
Sorry but you cant complain about wood getting in your eyes when cutting when you just sold a table for $3,800 and dont buy at least some safety glasses for a few $ or some woodcutting chaps... come on now
Cant they sell the wood directly to europeans or american companys? Im sure there could be a direct market for it, that gives them more money. And those western companys would do their own products witht he pure petrified wood. i mean they get 60 bucks for 4 tons of this wood. But the guy who makes the furniture makes 3800 dollar for ONE table? I would not sell any more stuff to this guy and try my best to find an western client who buys the raw materials. 7:30 and u cant tell me they cant even afford cheap glasses, gloves and shoes. Especially because hes the guy, who sells this stuff for so much money. i mean travel to indonesia.. its not that bad there. 10:00 and why is a women talking in this video while she also have problems speaking accordingly? Nothing against her, but normally u hire people that can speak properly. typical diversity hire...
No, the supply chain has to pay EVERYBODY in between. The direct selling is why they are paid so little. Like the blood minerals sold from war countries for just a little less than the sellers in the buying countries can ask. ALL that extra profit is NOT deserved.
What are you trying to ask? How trees can be different sizes? And no, these tries were WAY after dinosaurs died. Like 55 million years after. Not even close.
Sharp rocks, falling rocks, hammers, the fact that most people wear shoes, the damp conditions leading to fungal infections, infections from regular cuts, older people tend to enjoy comfort, and I'm pretty sure I could keep going
"Bertaruh NYAWA demi penghasilan yang tidak SEBERAPA" Inilah INDONESIA, Bapak Eli Suheli adalah gambaran kecil dari para pejuang keluarga yang rela bekerja keras bertaruh nyawa hanya demi sedikit Rupiah yang hanya cukup untuk sekedar menafkahi anak dan istri..
It's so soul crushing to see how often the hard working people who make all these industries possible get the least out of them. They risk the most for the smallest return..
It's simple economics fella
@@1Slamalama1my nephew mines copper here in the US, does not own the mine, puts in long hours and just bought himself a new F250 thanks to overtime. Then there’s my wife’s Norwegian cousin who just retired from being a truck driver at age 55. His place is hytte (cabin) is in southern coast of Norway and he’s taken me fishing in Sweden for cod.
It’s not just “simple economics” fella. It’s exploitation.
I agree with you. Unfortunatelly.
I think the dirty secret Americans don't like being faced with is that our way of life and standard of living is based on the exploitation of people and resources all over the world.
@@thelostone6981 Retirement age in Norway is 65 though, not sure if he retired extremely early. Truck drivers have a decent pay, but they can get a lot of extra pay. If they are doing long-hauls (international) they drive for days and they can't just leave their truck halfway to Germany and go back home, so then they might have to be away from their family for a week. They get more depending on what they transport. But unlike say Indonesia, they need a high-school education or long experience and follow a ton of regulations. So truck drivers that drive stuff into Norway, might get paid less than the Norwegian ones doing the same job, but guess what they probably have half the regulations and requirements. Every damn winter foreign trucks come in to Norway without winter tires (required by law), thinking they were gonna cheat system until they inevitably slip on ice. So if the IQ is that low to be a truck driver in foreign countries, I think it's good that they are paid well here and I don't see how that is exploitation. That is how it is supposed to be. However there is plenty of jobs even in Norway that pay exploitative wages like nurses, farmers and so on.
The mining process is ludicrously dangerous. A 4 ton piece of this is $480?? crazy cheap for the effort.
too many intermediaries, workers like those get fucked because they have no capital and can't organize, they can only sell at whatever price they are given to feed themselves, but make no mistake, their labour line the pockets of countless middlemen.
I'm not saying these intermediaries add no value at all, but given the imbalance in information and negotiating power, they still get a massively unfair share of the wealth
Just like anything that comes from third world it’s modern day imperialism.
$480 is quite big money in the area, but ofc it might not be worth the effort for some ppl
Make no mistake... $480 dollar to Indonesian Rupiah is 7.7 million... And that's a lot for them... I'm not from Indo but the amount $480 is worth of at least 2 months of minimum wage of a worker... So yep, it can definitely feed his family for sure...
You need to count for "Mc Donald Index" or something similar. Everything in Indonesia is cheaper, but the income is also smaller. 200 US$ is enough for average life in Indonesia. Even many GPs often have around 400-500 a month. Of course, the story changes when we need imported goods, like cars or phones. But 200 is enough to survive on local commodities.
He said the product that he finds is too good for his house and then he laughs. It is a sad cruel world
Sad
cry a river. there are people who have no food, this guy doesnt have petrified wood furniture? OH MY GOD HE SO POOR AWW POOR GUY
@chrisvibz4753 how can people really be happy without 50k furniture made from tree rocks?
@@chrisvibz4753isn't the guy in this video poor?
Isn't this comment sad that the stuff that HE gets out from the ground, HIMSELF can't afford it?
@@chrisvibz4753Hey maybe take time off the internet and spend sometime on reading and English comprehension.
A 45kg petrified fully furnished cost around 25kusd. I Just googled it. They found a 4ton and they got paid for 480usd?
It's cruel how this world works.. every process it goes through will mark up the price..
Hi there, Brian
I live in India and we find this wood in tons in coal mines. My grandfather used to drive coal trailers to carry them to factories for processing. He used to say that it was a huge loss to the coal corporations.
Petrified wood consists mostly of wood converted to quartz which doesn't burn at all and is thrown away or often workers take good specimens home for use .
Once he told us that a huge petrified tree( probably was Himalayan cedar as identified from the fossilized leaves) was found . It was to be thrown away. But grandpa brought that huge stump and got a table built from it and a couple chairs.
Nowadays, it is illegally shipped to the international market, and excavation of this stuff is banned.....
Dealers mark up
@@soumiksaha48thdimension Illegal HOW exactly when its processed and sold in India also?
its depressing.
Mining amber here in Poland is done with a really high pressure water stream, pieces of petrified wood often comes along with it. It's depressing too see such poor working conditions. My heart goes to everyone there.
Wet mining is horrible for the environment. Better to do it the traditional way.
Same thing in Alaska
😢
too many intermediaries, workers like those get fucked because they have no capital and can't organize, they can only sell at whatever price they are given to feed themselves, but make no mistake, their labour line the pockets of countless middlemen.
I'm not saying these intermediaries add no value at all, but given the imbalance in information and negotiating power, they still get a massively unfair share of the wealth
make more $$ by adding more value.
Happens to farmers too
What makes you think shipping a 4-ton halfway across the world, turning them into furniture, and convincing people to buy them add no value?
They dont exactly do the shipping either. And as he said, its not as if they add no value, but in what place is it fair that the person risking his life gets $20 but the person selling the table gets $20,000@@khangto7886
It's valuable because fossils are rare and difficult to obtain, not because it was a drop in the bucket of a container ship. The most labor intensive aspects of any given enterprise are typically deflated in cost by those that control an industry. It's like an upside down pyramid. It's done to prop up consumerism in service economies as a mechanism of social control. A person can see that everywhere if they bother to look.
Just imagine if Business Insider paid these guys standard performance rates for the video. They could probably retire on that amount of money.
I wonder if Business insider pays people who they make documentaries about at all. They definitely should!
@@YokoFuongAnh I wish they did but I don't think they do. i remember a piece about a middle eastern potter a while back who was going out of business because of poor local business demand, and the video had tons of people wanting their wares and clamoring to buy them internationally because of the BI video, but someone commented back after a while that the place went out of business shortly after the documentary was filmed. if BI was paying these people even a fraction of what american/european interviewees get paid then I doubt the business would have shut down.
I wonder how much it would be for a performer in this single video with that standard rate?
Exposing how bad the poor are at business , Business insider CEO”thats business baby!” :puffs cigar’
I doubt they paying these guys alot for these documentary
There was once a group of people who went to Indonesia in search of a certain wood to make high-quality violins, but when they got there, they cried because the wood was burned for cooking.
Handmade crafts are very cheap here, as few people want them.
That's why making furniture is the best option.
that table for 3800$ is crazy cheap, if it were at a retail furniture store it would be well over 20k$
That's expensive where we live😌
@@itoxotaxatix compared to where i live for a $3800 i can get a simple hardwood table set with some carving on it.. which feels liek a scam. but i guess its where the buyer/seller are doing business at that makes the price of it
Indonesia is a 3rd world country
@@iraqi00channel00scam? Supply and demand. $20,000 to my ex-brother in law is like $100 to me 🤷🏼♂️
@@iraqi00channel00 even just a solid quality maple or oak or something is like 5k depending on who made it and how well its furnished. 3800 for some 200m year old rock? what?
Even before this video, I wasn't interested in petrified wood. Now I want petrified wood even less than before.
A better idea is to buy from certified suppliers or directly from the artists
I have some petrified wood for you!
@thomaswright1657More pizza delivery drivers die than cops
Wanting it more will make the price rise
Speak for yourself. I've spent countless nights....
The people who do the most labor get the least
Always been that way. Its what countries like Russia and China use to make countries dislike the global order and it works because its a fair criticism
agree
Exactly and its not fair 😔
well thats with all work
No way! Really
I like the phrasing "no one can afford my living expenses" for no one's paying high enough wages.
Because they aren't employees. Eli is technically the business owner (grey area legally too). Business owners dont get a wage.
As an Indonesian, I need to remind everyone that MANY people here in third world country lives in FAR worse situation, doing much worse job with much worse reward. The reason why he looks happy is that he IS getting paid A LOT for Indonesian standard. Compared to many people, he is actually doing a genuinely good job and living in a decent condition.
Indonesian is naturally humble people and always grateful for any goodness in the world, even in an unfortunate life condition, because that's what our culture and religion (Islam) taught us. Always be grafetul for everything you have, because none of our riches, no money and no treasure will be carried to the afterlife. The only light in our grave is the kindness we did while we live in this world, and that's the basic common teaching here on Indonesia. Which is why most people don't complain and accept their poor life, because life can always get worse, so we should be grateful for what we have.
Indonesian moss agate is my fav gemstone and it is the most beautiful scenic agate to me. These people work hard mining this stuff and don't get near the credit they should.
Yeah too many intermediate persons and the miners only get small amounts of money😢
Is this the one they mining?
@@Sayakesal // no, moss agate and petrified wood is different thing
You have one?
I met a guy on Facebook I buy moss agate from who is in Indonesia. The ones I pick out look sort of like a split section of a forest. Kind of like an ant farm.
"$60 half minimum wage in Indonesia" .
Nah the minimum wages is $308.
It's crazy to know that people that live on same island as me work really hard and with very high risk.
Standar Jakarta lu bawa ke kampung, aneh
Australian coal mines in the Bowen & Stuart Basins all full of the stuff. As well as petrified leaves imprinted in the fault lines of rock, like a perfect black and white 'stamp' of various leaves, ferns etc.
Entire petrified trees are routinely seen in the rock (strata) above the coal seams. (overburden)
But sadly it is all simply destroyed by the large earthmoving equipment and loaded into trucks and sent to the tip face to be dumped, buried and forgotten as though it is no different to the other rock covering the coal seams.
Extraordinary sight seeing the material falling away from a dig face and seeing the branches of a tree, made from rock, slowly emerge and hamg in the air, before being destroyed as the bucket of the loading unit grabs another scoop from that area.
Stuff is surprisingly heavy too. Attempts to put pieces aside for retrieving later by light vehicle are usually fruitless as the pieces put aside are usually discovered to be far to heavy to lift by hand.
Such a shameful waste
Omg, that is so sad! Im in Townsville, id love to buy that stuff, priceless botanical information from millions of years ago....
Business Insider is adding to the issue. They should pay these workers that they feature in these videos.
I agree 💯 percent
These poor miners deserve more. All of us prefer branded products instead of buying from original producers or makers.
So why don't you fly to indonesia and buy directly instead of buying through amazon? Oh right, you don't want to spend extra $500 to fly there....
@@templeofdelusion maybe someday, maybe
Oh tips for ya traveller : Bali is part of Indonesia (many people mistaken)
This is why I always stay away from any luxurious stuffs. Most of the time, the core ingredients of those things are acquired in such a dangerous way and the workers get almost nothing compare to the end market valuation. It just doesn't make sense to me.
Buy Virgin Valley Nevada opalized logs then try to afford labor in Biden land.
These people wouldnt be able to eat without selling these... you'd rather people just stop buying them?
@@VitaKetyes
@@VitaKet Yes
Elly appears to be relatively happy, despite his work and living conditions. If not happy, then, at least good natured.
I think someone that can afford those high end pieces, could probably afford to go directly to the miners to shop for what they want.
This would allow the miners to see a bigger piece of the profits to upgrade their working conditions.
I'm guessing even after arranging for shipping and finished production the buyer would save money.
A vacation written off their taxes as a business expense.
A travel agency could book specific buying tours to wherever and whatever their wealthy clients are interested in.
no ventilation shafts for the 10' deep mine...
I thought the same, then remembered my brother had to help me out of a tunnel we dug as kids. It was about a metre deep and two metres long. Nearly flaked out down there. We found all sorts of sand layers
All support to this man and others like him everywhere. What's saddening is always witnessing individuals striving and toiling, only for others to reap the greater benefits.
Sounds like capitalism
the man is risking his life, so is the cameraman
Doubt the cameraman visits mines that often.
I'm not even sure the cameraman didnt just give the camera to a local.
@@sisig2419 Yes, trust a local with a camera costing in the thousands in a cramped underground mine
@@markrouse2416 Still dangerous
200 Million dollars of petrified wood in arizona is actually nothing in the scale of the world of commodities, i know must of us won't ever see even a million dollars or close but its cause monopolies exist and people who have the power to change the world don't to better us as a whole.
My 95 year old nana says it "you can't take money with you so why not benefit those around you" and if we all thought like this the world would be different place
Im taking this quote ❤
That quote is so beautiful omg🥹
_"you can't take money with you so why not benefit those around you"_
Tell your nana that the government already takes around 40% of my money (income/property/sales tax) and literally gives it away to people that do nothing for themselves.
I never knew petrified woods are that valuable and beautiful.😮
Not much beautifull than you
At least the man looks happy, god blessed him!!
That single tray is a sad reminder of what they in fact deserved to own for all the risk.
Great documentary….i love Indonesia……& love the people ❤
I live in India and we find this wood in tons in coal mines. My grandfather used to drive coal trailers to carry them to factories for processing. He used to say that it was a huge loss to the coal corporations.
Petrified wood consists mostly of wood converted to quartz which doesn't burn at all and is thrown away or often workers take good specimens home for use .
Once he told us that a huge petrified tree( probably was Himalayan cedar as identified from the fossilized leaves) was found . It was to be thrown away. But grandpa brought that huge stump and got a table built from it and a couple chairs.
Nowadays, it is illegally shipped to the international market, and excavation of this stuff is banned.....
It is still found in huge amounts in Southern India and in the Raan of Kutch.
Apni kothay thaken ? Apnar dadu kon coal mine company te kaaj korten?
Dude was hiding the pain behind his laughter you could see it on his face at the end when he was saying the wood he mines everyday is too expensive for him to have in his home.
Which means he isn't getting paid too little.
Mad respect for the miner and wood worker.
They provide their family a decent life with their diligence.
Like this video explain, casualty on this mining operation is exist but a rare case.
*Man digs for petrified rocks in the most unsafe method possible*
Business Insider: "Why is mining petrified wood so dangerous?"
And this 20mill y old 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩
And BS
13:20 this guy is true scumbag.. ripping off the poor miners
I find small pieces in the creeks and such. Never would have guessed people search for it and dig it up for a living. Crazy af, I put that shit in my flowerbeds
It's indonesia. Ppl often talk about amazon rainforest. But they forgot that indonesia is like second or third mosr biodiverse region on earth.
So many trees. So many fossilized organism of course. And coal.
480$?? That’s insane! I’d buy that all day long!
Makes no sense how the most hard workers don't get most of the profit
Because that's not how value is determined, effort isn't the only metric to measure value.
It’s heartbreaking
I’m majoring business management at university. I hope after graduating, i could do the business that help people and make the world becomes a better place
Why not just add some simple wood reinforcement?? With planks? How is this dude still alive?
That's the dilemma. Just as BI explained the mining operation most likely illegal and the land they mined is leased by the owner combined with low paycheck they received, they couldnt afford proper mining gear let alone mineshaft reinforcement as the mine could be raided by authorities for illegal mining operation making them greatly at loss.
Taiwan is a country, not merely an Island. I don’t care if China takes issue with that
They should sell it online with no middle man and cash in for themselves!!!!!!!!
yeah some 60 yr old indonesian miner is gonna set up an online shopify store
Unfortunately doesn't work like that. My parents do online retail, it's very difficult to just set up a listing and make profit. Plus it requires experience and knowledge of the market. Supply lines span continents. Without capital and knowledge you can't do it.
@@haadiusman3524😂
many scammers around and they need money ASAP for their daily needs
As a TH-camr once said; “I don’t got online.”
Nothings stopping anyone from taking a vacation there and buying directly from them. The reason its 10 times more expensive here is because the demand is low and shipping prices are high.
Business Insider, if you make these people aware of how much their products should be worth and make an effort to start helping them get a connection with a direct seller, you'll make a big difference instead of just featuring them in your videos.
will be sold for more than what they sold it for is a huuuuge understatement , they buy that piece for 450$ and sell the whole thing for like 150-200k or cut it up and sell it for even more, thats an astronomical mark up
If you ever complain about your commute to work, watch this video. It will quickly put your life into perspective.
0:46 that was dangerous...
What?
Great video. Indeed it is soul-crushing.
Not really. This is their life.
Fascinating video, what an amazing businessman, miner, artist and craftsman. Never stop Indonesia
“Dug these mines himself…..with the help of his coworkers.”
Let’s hear that in a different scenario.
I drove myself to work. With help from the bus driver
😭
TH-cam suggestions, you’ve gone and done it again lad, cheers mate👊🏻
Worked in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. near the river.. tons of petrified wood there. Though those pieces were smaller and ranged to only 30-40 millions years old. I have a bunch of pieces in my office. Very cool
I'm in the valley, where are we finding Petrified Wood because I need some lol
I am absolutely disgusted by how badly these people doing the mining are underpaid considering the value of the material they extract.
that park is kind of mesmerizing
Imagine the shroom trip in there, what those 20million year old trunks will tell you.
@@CruiseWavy1388 200 million.
0:24 the subtitle is wrong, he was simply said "I don't understand about that lol" 😂
The narrator tailing off each sentence with vocal fry is killing my soul.
Where the heck do people find problems with that now?
Her lisp ruins it for me too.
humanity is doomed while people have to live like this.
12:43 A very fascinating sight. A tree that had lived millions of years ago and then toppled. But it "still lives", in petrified form, through the earth's long history since then and reaching into our time. And it will still be around long after all of us are gone.
``He never lost a friend, but he got injured before`` at least he has friends unlike many rich people.
their language sounds very similar to visayan. and when he said "kamay ko", in tagalog it means "my hand".
Due their Austronesian root
I wonder what got the wood so petrified in the 1st place ?.. 🤔
You can do alot with scared wood, it's really Beautiful. 👍🏻😎
Mang eli mantep masuk kesini 😂❤❤❤
kalo boleh tau lokasi tambang nya dimana ya pak?
Like sawing off the branch you're sitting on
3:25 the POV shot lmao bravo vince
5:50 - Of course there's a leech of a landlord costing them a massive cut of their income...
They are on their land. They basically destroy the land. The landlord owns the land because he or she somehow got to own it. It's their property.
Honestly its fair to pay the owner of the land a cut of what you dig up, but can we talk about how they get paid 480$ for FOUR TONS of wood that is sold for WAY more?
Thats the part I dont get.
@@Gandeloft"he or she somehow got to own it" is doing a lot of lifting here
@@GandeloftIt’s ok if your parents were landlords, it’s a scummy practice full up slumlords who make money off of people while doing nothing.
@@andrewxzvxcud2 Your imagination is too wild. This is real life, not a movie villain.
"This mine is 10 feet deep and there are NO ventilation shafts" the narration is over the top
a cool channel idea would be to buy these types of items in shops, then trace it back to who ACTUALLY made it and pay them properly for what they did. Like some Mr. Beast style stuff
I used to work for cb2 , and we sell these type of petrified wood and its often made in in Indonesia. Now seeing where it actually comes from and hows its made . They odten sold for 80 - 100 ish dollars Glad i never brought it .
68? My god. Amazing
More like depressing
i couldn't imagine toiling away in a mine risking my life just to get less than what people selling furniture get
You would imagine that real quick when that is the only way you could feed yourself and your family now get back to work slaving for capitalism
Is it just me or Indonesia has the most risky job ever
imo, one of the reason is Indonesia still doesn't know how to treat their natural resource by using technology. so they use their human resources to get the natural resource. this kind of job actually just not in Indonesia, i heard that so many people risks their life to get natural resource on Africa. okay, we can stop this kind of job but after this, where will they search their job? with 'limited human resource' in this digital era, it's hard for them to adapt. this is dilema. i just hope that they will get better soon :(
@@rajwaa594 yeah respect for all the hard working people that risk there life just to be able to buy food for there family
Man when I see the petrified wood miner it makes me feel so lucky to be in America with a nice house and good job
somewhere in Arizona US you can pay to dig on your own and on surface no need to go that deep or in tunels
not to mention petrify wood are are everywhere tbh
@@kenfern2259 true true
This dude is a beast, no real shoes at any moment that could collapse on him. Worked with a Hispanic dude who picked cases in the freezer with no gloves, he wore freezer gear with regular shoes on so he could move faster. Pulled 2000 cases a night on a double jack
"I can't imagine what these trees would tell me if they were alive"
Probably something like, "please don't cut me, bro"
You can see the greedy rich. Paying Nothing these poor survivors ricking there life over these object. How silly.
“This man is risking his life”
Cameraman: “what, am I chopped liver to you?”
No, the camera is attached at workers. Take a good look.
Cameraman never dies, therefore doesn't risk anything.
11:20 What language was spoken on radio by that operator or robot?
Insanely dangerous....basically for nothing $ wise. Wow
welcome to capitalism
I am indo, here risking life is better than your stomatch is empty
Wahai warga indo ada kan yang nonton ini video
Shouldn't these rare tree fossils be donated to scientists and museums to be, you know, STUDIED instead of being turned into MORE USELESS FURNITURE FOR THE ULTRA RICH?
And as an addition why AREN'T SCIENTISTS reaching out to this guy to study the wood?
Cheap considering every piece is unique
I kind of want some petrified wood plates.
Maybe $500.
dude, $480 is NOT cheap here in Indonesia. That can feed his family for more than a month
Although yeah he probably deserves more
@@chootanf who said anything about locals my guy…
Wood becomes rock with time. Now think about that.
I love how funny he thinks it is to wonder what the trees would say if they were alive today, feels like a producer asked him.
Humans at all level of sophistication have a sense of humor
Trees don't talk, so I doubt they'd have much to say.😂
What he says and what the subtitle says is different. What he actually said was:
"Saya juga kurang tahu itu, kurang tahu. Kurang paham itu lah"
which roughly translates as "I don't really know. I don't even understand it"
woods turned to almost stone, sooo those mountains....
Sorry but you cant complain about wood getting in your eyes when cutting when you just sold a table for $3,800 and dont buy at least some safety glasses for a few $ or some woodcutting chaps... come on now
Cuz that 3k USD being divided among the miners and craftsman. Also just look at their home, they barely even living
Cant they sell the wood directly to europeans or american companys?
Im sure there could be a direct market for it, that gives them more money. And those western companys would do their own products witht he pure petrified wood.
i mean they get 60 bucks for 4 tons of this wood. But the guy who makes the furniture makes 3800 dollar for ONE table?
I would not sell any more stuff to this guy and try my best to find an western client who buys the raw materials.
7:30 and u cant tell me they cant even afford cheap glasses, gloves and shoes. Especially because hes the guy, who sells this stuff for so much money.
i mean travel to indonesia.. its not that bad there.
10:00 and why is a women talking in this video while she also have problems speaking accordingly? Nothing against her, but normally u hire people that can speak properly.
typical diversity hire...
No, the supply chain has to pay EVERYBODY in between. The direct selling is why they are paid so little. Like the blood minerals sold from war countries for just a little less than the sellers in the buying countries can ask. ALL that extra profit is NOT deserved.
In australia they have alot of these !!! Try working with the mining sites 👌
Meanwhile we print some paper notes and buy from them
the braces of the narrator pisses me off so damn much
By watching this, I just learnt that petrified wood actually becomes quartz overtime.
He owns his own house. Something that most Americans making even twice the minimum wage can't afford.
a table would be so awesome made out of that stuff! what a awesome job
Why does this voice sound a bit like AI?
Jirr banyak banget bisnis nya Pak Risky 😁
damn you Harry Potter
But the question is: if the woods lived at around dinosaurs time, how the petrified wood in arizona can be cut into smaller log?
What are you trying to ask? How trees can be different sizes?
And no, these tries were WAY after dinosaurs died. Like 55 million years after. Not even close.
These type of wood doesn't even exist yet during jurassic era.
7:35 I think a pair of safetly glasses are about 20 cents. dumb to bring that up, buy a pair and use as an investment...
really like to watch these but please use another narrator with a clearer way of speaking
She speaks incredibly clearly. I don't think you could ask for better lol
@RapTapTap69 it sounds like she's paid in buckets of peanut butter
Wait, he's afraid of being raided. But this documentary has clearly exposed them 🤔
"He's 68 years old but still goes in barefoot"
I don't see the connection nor the problem
Problem is rock fall on his foot .
Sharp rocks, falling rocks, hammers, the fact that most people wear shoes, the damp conditions leading to fungal infections, infections from regular cuts, older people tend to enjoy comfort, and I'm pretty sure I could keep going
Problems cant look at themselves even in the mirror
cant see the connection huh, must be blind deaf and dumb
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