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[-] Monstertruckenjoyer@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Mining wouldn't be necessarily bad if you actually were given some form of the share of discovery and were properly compensated otherwise for the labor regardless of success. Like if hitting a gold vein for your job was tangibly beneficial it'd be kinda sick.

So long as health and safety are respected

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago

I think it might be better to reward people for following procedure and, when relevant, responding to crises appropriately. Rewarding people for striking a vein that hadn't been discovered yet seems like a good way to get people to overwork and endanger themselves, because you're basically giving them a slot machine where the input is labor instead of money and it's particularly a concern here because even ethical mining practices still carry substantial danger.

[-] Monstertruckenjoyer@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

meant it more as rewarding for everyone not just the single worker gets the benefit

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

It still applies if it's the whole group. I originally had wording about the problems of competition here, but I assumed what you specified here is what you meant. That doesn't do anything to fix the issue of it being a "physically dangerous slot machine"

[-] Monstertruckenjoyer@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

maybe I think a physically dangerous slot machine would be cool

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Like if hitting a gold vein for your job was tangibly beneficial it'd be kinda sick.

Minecraft prepared us for this

[-] RION@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Begging the foreman to let me jump in a flooded ravine with a stack of wooden doors (I'll make us rich)

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