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Did capitalism save the miners?

INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, 15.10.2010: In today's international papers, we look at the ongoing coverage of the rescue in Chile - are the first signs of division emerging between the miners? Did capitalism "save" them, as Daniel Henninger writes in the Wall Street Journal? Also, does the McDonald's Happy Meal ever go moldy? One experiment suggests it doesn't!

By James CREEDON
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Comments (1)

Did capitalism save the miners?

I love the cognitive dissonance of the WSJ - Capitalism saves the miners (not the engineers or technology used to drill the hole). But Capitalism was not responsible for putting the miners in an unsafe mine.

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