この安全管理がされていない労働環境が許される先進国はあるのだろうか…。

@@nyanco-sensei Not legally, no. Illegally? I wouldn't doubt it for a second. We are in the second great age of Robber Baron capitalism.

I agree. Sad tho, in America, many do not care about OSHA or protecting the workers. Humans give up so much to give us beauty!

​@@nyanco-senseisự an toàn cho người Dân sao? Xin bạn đừng mơ mộng, đây là Trung Quốc, một nước Cộng Sản Độc Tài. 😅

The guys cutting huge logs barefoot and no gloves. Unprotected band saws. I have no issue paying taxes for OSHA and the FDA. Not to mention the business added cost of fire escapes.

Thats nothing to do with respect. They have no choice. Disrespect for the owners of the mines. They should spent some money for personal protection equippment for the workers who are making them rich.

You can't cut your fingers on the saw blades. I pressed my thumb against such a saw blade, and it didn't make a mark. What's terrifying is that nobody is using gauze masks. Glass dust is _TERRIBLE_ for the lungs! I am certain that several of the workers will develop COPD and probably cancer. COPD stands for Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Hell yes. And i have cut a LOT of stone in my life.

At least they’re already red

I’m sure those thin rubber coated gloves will protect his hands 😅

Also, silicosis... :( These people deserve proper HEPA filter breathing masks - and ear protection.

Have been working with glass since 1976 and I'd rather a lot and I stress a lot of small cuts than a big one. Touch wood. It's not volcanic glass it's man made.

The same can be said of most tradesman that live in ur community from the lineman to the roofer

@@kafunkalear I'm glad you mentioned that it's not volcanic. It's pretty awful really. Just a bunch of glass balls. I mean, look how many there are, just lying around. I love beautifully made glass but this? Not-so-much. What sort of glass are you working with? I mean are you a craftsperson or do you work in the glazing industry. Glass, as you're fully aware, is not something to underestimate.

The grinding wheels are flexible and the man is wearing cut proof gloves. I'm sure all of these people have been doing this process for years. Just look at the number of spheres in the beginning of the video. They aren't saw blades like on a chop saw or a circular saw, they are grinding wheels and are flexible. It's almost hard to hurt yourself on them.

Wet saws dont cut flesh

I had to come to the comments to figure out what they were making. I wish they would write it on the screen but you are doing great! That's for the knowledge, sir.

Ya thanks. I had no idea what they were making.

Thanks for clearing that up dude , I was so confused 😅

. *I'd like to see the printer for that.*

😅😅😅@@snoglydox

Keep the whole village employed! haha I guess it's special for art but I'd never imagined they made those by hand anywhere still.

Rolling paper 😮

HA! Sure does, doesn't it!

Right, especially the guys making the spheres. One slip and your hand is done.

Good thing no one needs to wear a mask.

@@SaccoBelmonte It's probably not that bad, I've seen lapidarists talk about their cutting and shaping wheels--they are abrasive not sharp, and you can tell it takes an enormous amount of pressure to remove material. Not that I'm volunteering...

They all seem to still have all their fingers….so that’s a plus.

You see how the guy was just slammimg the saw

Yeah at first glance ti looked like a whales tail.

I thought it was too much tuna

@@dukx3986 : great name for a race horse "too much tuna" !!!! By the way, I had a wonderful cat named Tuna!

I thought it was Tuna, silly me, tuna isn't shaped like that but it did remind me of raw tuna.

I thought that they were going to use it to roll up a really big joint.

i said the same thing i was like o that thing dont stop lol

I think he's missing a tip on the left hand 😅

what is your daily occupation man?

@@_Wai_Wai_ I'm a Sr. Technical Author for a U.S. Aerospace/Defense Corporation. 😉

I'm looking too

try GOOGLE

Well I think we've already tried that !

It would help if you googled crystal ball or something it's not really made from obsidian like the title says, I know because I've flintknapped a lot of obsidian and there isn't and super vibrant colors like this. That's manmade glass they are shaping.

At first glance I was like… 🤔 So this is how bowling balls are made 😅

Its says "Samsung Rice Paper" on the wall banners [with the 3 stars] and the guys tops (in red) says Samsung too.

@@user-cx4ll4rj1t The chinese Samsung then, not to be mistaken with the Korean Samsung we all know about.

​@@kirkanos771And guess where Samsung phones are made?

@@harrassee My Samsung phone was made in Vietnam.

When I first see the images, I knew it was in China. Tbh, only Chinese people could work in such dangerous conditions and get out an Amazing work. I'm Chinese of origins btw

The glass is too.

They are certainly talented for what machinery they have available, but often very wasteful of material. There was no volcanic glass - that was all man made glass.

@@buggsy5 I agree, I think they're calling it volcanic glass because it looks like a chunk of volcanic lava due to the colour being similar to lava?🤔😂👍

Sounds like you've never worked in a machine shop or done construction.

@@Ogrematic My point is the average person goes through their lives never fully understanding just how much they rely on the hard labour and ingenuity of others for the materials that enable them to exist. My career involved a profession requiring years of tertiary study, and was less manually intensive. We all share our talents to benefit the whole, because we don’t have mastery of every skill to survive. No one is less than any other, and we depend upon each other more than you could believe.

@@queenslander7756 "Mysteriously appears."

what are you talking about..social handouts are a good thing

What else can they do. You either fight for life or die. I admire anyone trying their best.

Yes. Little things, like protective eyewear, are hArDlY necessary... 🙄 It might cost the employer a whole dollar. There's plenty of desperate people, if any of these go blind.

Your post is hilarious in light of the fact that guite a bit of the flim footage was shot in socialist countries! That's just too funny.

@@jstephenallington8431 Oh, ever so true. There is often a misconception of what "real" Socialist living conditions are. They envision a Nordic lifestyle although Norway is not a true Socialist economy. Most are more like the living conditions of these hardworking souls.

Terrible working conditions for some people. I'll bet they're pay is equally poor.

Who ever told you love doesn't hurt?

I'm sure they'll be grateful to you as the slowly die from Silicosis. Also, salt lamps are bunk....and the factories and quarries they come from in Pakistan are literal horror shows. But the pseudohippies keeeeep buyin em. Be careful, theyll destroy most things you store near them too, including electronics, books, artwork, paint, carpet and furniture etc etc etc

alt is red in color?

Incredible skill sad to think the product is dependent on trends and mysticism. When Hollywood stops thinking Witchcraft is cool I fear for the work here

Imagine how big the crayons must be! That is a labor-intensive product. The art they make with it is worth all the effort.

@@Jonathan.D LOL

Sad part is they probably get crap pay and the "owner" makes a ton of money. Those things are very expensive.

@newinfusion 0 seconds ago That’s not volcanic glass. The slab they were cutting at the beginning was a glass ingot made in a factory nearby. Later on, we see clear and pink balls being made there as well. You don’t get those colors or that variety from volcanic activity.

The title is clickbait. There was no volcanic glass anywhere there.

I don't see a single one of them working very hard

@@michaelwoods8654 Can happen if one is blind.

Why are you sad for people working hard?

Breathing in these conditions is really damaging to the lungs.

No gloves or helmet. They don't have to worry about retirement in old age.

That's because there isn't red volcanic glass. Volcanic glass is either black as in Obsidian, or golden yellow as in Pele's hair (filaments of volcanic glass). This is "slag glass" which is glass of different colors made in such a way to produce a marbled effect. It's no more special than colored opaque marble glass.

Bc it’s not natural

Glass flag from a factory not from volcano

or ear protection

@@Kalithrasis What colors can volcanic glass be? The color of obsidian ranges widely from common brown-black to orange, green, blue, gray or even near-colorless, and is influenced by the presence of sub-micron-sized crystals. Common textures include flow banding, breccia, devitrification (including spherulites and lithophysae), and vesicular bands. there has been more red glass found in certain areas. not saying this is real volcanic glass but it could be or maybe they made it in the same manner some make pearls by seeding the lava flow.

They are made from Red Obsidian... I want some O_O

Yes very beautiful I want one!😊💜✌️

I don't like the balls at all.. the glass looks much better with edges

@@ravoniesravenshir3926 Red obsidian does not occur naturally. The balls in the video were cut from glass manufactured in a nearby factory.

@@SongMangosteen - We SAW them break huge slabs they cut. How'd they get the red out?

Lol. Most of the luxuries you enjoy, like your TV, tablet, smartphone, car, etc. contain precious metals mined in 3rd world countries and use child labor and extremely unsafe working conditions. Consider that the next time your dopamine receptors are flooded by the sound of a message ping. My bet is you'll get over it! But yeah, crystals salt balls = bad.

I hate people like you very much, You could say these workers deserve better working conditions, But if you are filled with righteous indignation and think that the small boss of the factory must provide perfect conditions for these workers to work, then you are too naive and ridiculous. There are still too many places and too many people in this world who have not received enough development. At the moment, what they need more is a job to support their families. They should be grateful to the small factory boss for giving them the job opportunity, rather than caring about the relative Secondary environmental conditions, put away your ignorant and ridiculous cheap pity!

Stop being a Karen

No different than mine owners and other types of business here in America. Black lung, brown lung. My relatives died from both. Ignore the Karen insult.

Its wet cutting there isn't dust everywhere

I was just wondering who would buy one of this, I mean there is an entire crew working to make these spheres, so they make a ton, and there must be a huge market.

​@@biomorphicThey mostly sell them to crystal shops all over. Lots of people buy them.

or in their eyes?

@@richardschneider4775 Yea no eye protection = lots of small sharp things are in their eyes, for sure... Their lungs are probably not gonna last long from that either.

They have put on safety lungs.

can you imagine my particles your mom is breathing in?

Y después nosotros lo compramos en una tienda Boutique, a valores increíbles, sin pensar en los pobres hombres que labraron por migajas. Y un patrón se lleva la gran torta.

この水晶玉は好きですか？それはあなたにどのような祝福をもたらしましたか？

@@user-df7fr2bc8g はい。とても素晴で素晴らしいです。

Es buen trabajo y lo sobrante lo reutilizan o queda contaminante al planeta

I thought she was hot, too - and WITH all that talent!

Those guys also don't have a volcano. Volcanic glass my ass, this is totally manmade glass. As you can see it comes not only in bright clear reds, but also greens, clear, blues, yellows, whatever someone is willing to pay for. Geology doesn't work that conveniently.

Without unions? Try without freedom... Looks to be China.

I agree, the slag glass would be way better as furniture components. The reason they are doing crystal balls is to sell them to fools in the New Age spiritual movement as well as novices of gemology and mineral collection under the claim of being a natural material when it is not. The balls are also easier to ship. China is a huge source of scam minerals and gems.

Salt doesn't ship well

Exactly! As soon as I saw that huge block I said oh my God they are grossly misusing it. Can you imagine what a magnificent altar, desk, table, sculpture, or light window it could be made into, just to name a few ideas?

@@brotherowl It's just slag. They'll make more.

That is what I thought as well!!!!

i use that in my aquarium now...

Was that in big chunks of green glass? In the 70's as a kid a friend of mine's father worked in a glass factory and had these decorating his front garden

Yeah, I remember that- so cool

It is NOT a stone. It is slag glass from industrial smelting. The Chinese lie like this CONSTANTLY.

Welcome to most of the world. Even in the west it's only in like the past 30 - 50 years that we've started to even pretend to care about worker safety. Look up the working conditions for miners in the UK as well as in the US up to the 70's and 80's. They were terrible.

@@spracketskooch well we got politicians these days who are working very hard at rolling back worker safety. they do it by calling it job protection: because worker safety "chokes the profits out of business." that's why capitalism is a race to the bottom of the barrel. whoever agrees to work for the lowest wages in the worst conditions gets to keep their job. the only rights they want for labor is the right to accept a job or the right to leave it. otherwise, the employer is your overlord.

​Sadly true. Most workers around the world, know the hell, every day of their too short lives. @@spracketskooch

​@@yaddahaysmarmalite4059 I agree to an extent. Like, clearly the version of capitalism we have today is utterly unacceptable to almost everyone. The problem comes when a business gets too big. The power shifts radically into the employers direction. If it's a small to medium sized business, then the workers can get together and demand certain things. They can actually have an effect because the employer relies on them just as much as they rely on the employer. Also, when the government will step in and save giant, failing businesses, it essentially just strips the workers of any leverage they might have had. Keep government out of business, they always fuck it up, regardless of their intentions. Also, this mindset of endless growth needs to stop immediately. It's literally impossible to grow forever. And if one attempts to grow something endlessly that growth will eventually take over completely and kill everything else. What is cancer but a cell that grows without limit, with no regard for the rest of the body?

I agree these working conditions are insanely bad. That said, this glass is from industrial smelting, not real obsidian. They are scammers for calling it 'volcanic glass', but such is the nature of Chinese gemology. They always pull shit like that.

Artists? They're slaves. If you didn't personally hand $200 to one of these people for their so called art then you are the reason they suffer these conditions.

Take care of yourself, man. I'd rather have you around than a stained glass window.

Thanks for the kind thought but I've got one foot in the coffin and the other on a banana peel😅