He isn’t really that much more of a contributor to coal burning, they’d find someone else for the job. Coal mining actually pays a good amount (in the US at least). His work being gruelling and him still showing up and trying his best to take his kid out for a fun time is enough to make it feel good. If you want to critique about coal killing the planet complain about the companies and countries behind it, not the guy just doing his job.

That’s fair enough, but there’s no support or complacency about the current labour industry in this post. It’s just some guy who has a hard labour intensive job got noticed/appreciated and a good thing is happening for him.

Though potentially unintended, your comment (at least to me) came off as though you don’t see how this coal miner likely has one of the hardest jobs out of the people there, and he still put in the extra effort to rush to this game with his son. You focused on “why is he getting special treatment” which somewhat misses the point.

Like the other replay touched on its the fact that he’s a coal miner. Coal mining is hard dangerous work where the company generally treats you poorly and is in flexible with things like leaving an hour early.

I hope you realize others down voted you because of your disregard for the hard work of coal mining and not because you were a “downer”