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		mr_overalls on April 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The global population pyramid People should be free to do what interests them, and should be encouraged to follow careers that benefit society and themselves. Maybe we need _fewer_ people - men and women - giving each other head injuries in combat sports. Fewer people fighting in senseless wars. Maybe we need safer worksites, so that people - men and women - can work in construction or mining if it appeals to them.

adwn on April 22, 2019 [–]

> Maybe we need safer worksites, so that people - men and women - can work in construction or mining if it appeals to them.

Are you implying that construction site work is almost exclusively a male domain because it is relatively unsafe work?

I'm not saying that I'd disagree with that statement, not at all.

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