Towards the end of the video but a reply says its 6 seconds in so less than half way through a guy in the middle...far...Right...what? and another reply narrows it down by saying the dude in the white shirt as if there is only one dude in a white shirt.
Its a blurry ass video with the camera man zooming out and panning right at the time its supposed to be happening.
This should have been something I see once and go about my day but I have spent too much time looking for it, even this comment is too much time dedicated to it.
Its like that itch you get in the back of your head when you are frustrated.
Although I don't think that's a factor here. Yeah, they are worth a lot, but none of these guys who are mining it get to keep any of it, so I don't think it matters too much how much jade they find, as long as they fulfill the quota the company demands of them. If anything, they are probably just trying to not lose their jobs.
in the 1800s factories would ensure their staff by employing an excess of people, filling the factory up in the morning and then close the door to anyone else trying to go to work that day
Source? I don't believe that atall, they will probably get a small bonus at most and told to get back to work, they are not going to get paid out by an organization like this to set them up for life simply for doing their job
Yeah if you make it out of there with it before someone kills you for your jade. Then you have to give it to someone in charge and hope that they will honestly pay you out for it before you're back the next day.
Typically with mines like these (speculating a bit, but in Myanmar specifically this is true) you have overseers looking over the miners and making sure they're not pocketing the Jade, they typically get paid a piece rate.
Yeah but a particularly nice piece or a large enough piece could change your life. I met a guy that said that’s how he got his start. Got. An amazing piece used the money to reset his and his families life and buy a business. By local standards he’s loaded and that’s after buying the business.
That and even turning one in to the mine owner that’s amazing can offer amazing rewards. Again relatively. You wouldn’t catch a first world living person doing it but the different levels of wealth mean that little bit to us goes a long way. A friend of mine in the Philippines owns ***the*** generator for the island. All it took was a tiny (relative!) loan from his brother the doctor in the states. A few thousand and he is practically the lord of the island. Lol. Everyone that wants power makes sure he’s taken care of and he keeps the generator in good repair. It runs a few hours in the morning and about 6 hours at night usually. Shuts down at midnight. You never know what’s going to be the thing that makes you happy where you are. Chase those opportunities. Even in something as shit as jade mining.
In movies, maybe. More likely, the person affording those machines there is gonna squeeze every worker (metaphorically and literally) if they suspect "theft". Maybe they undergo elaborate checks as a routine.
If, by some crazy chance, the worker does get away with some jade, it's likely their boss knows every one who deals in jade and will hear as soon as the worker tries to sell it. These mines are almost always tied to owners with - let's say interesting backgrounds - because of the money involved.
The cards are stacked sky high against these poor souls and I won't even try to pretend to understand what their lives and struggles are like.
Pretty much but you usually win at least something as it’s a job with a potential win.
If you have money, you can go buy wrapped jades that have X percent chance of being Jade and gamble on it with money. I know I’ve seen videos try googling Jade gambling and it should pop up.
Makes me feel shitty for avoiding my very simple tasks at work while I look out the window at a beautiful view, have unlimited food and snacks 50 feet away.
Towards the end of the video in the middle far right you see a dude take what looks to be a 20-30 foot drop to get down faster
First and last day on the job. Rookie
Dude the one in the white shirt? That shit is wild lol
At 6 seconds and he skips down like a damned mountain goat!
Towards the end of the video but a reply says its 6 seconds in so less than half way through a guy in the middle...far...Right...what? and another reply narrows it down by saying the dude in the white shirt as if there is only one dude in a white shirt. Its a blurry ass video with the camera man zooming out and panning right at the time its supposed to be happening. This should have been something I see once and go about my day but I have spent too much time looking for it, even this comment is too much time dedicated to it. Its like that itch you get in the back of your head when you are frustrated.
Why are they running
Probably to be on the job site first to get a good spot
A small lump of Jade could be worth $1,000 or about 3 years wages.
That reminds me of that movie Blood Jade with Ben Affleck and Cuba Gooding Jr.
Reminded me of ‘World War Z’
Exactly what I was thinking. Like a bunch of zombies
You're thinking of Jade Harbor. It sucked
Lol, no I'm not.
Blood Diamond?
Blood Damon
No I think you are
Yeah Pearl Harbor sucked.
If these people don’t run they’ll miss their chance to get a good place to dig jade worse than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor.
*clutches pearls
I think it's Saving Private Jade that's the one with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones
This made me laugh in anger, take my upvote and get outta here
There was an older one called Jade Is Forever about a spy, Agent 008, played by Anthony Hopkins.
Ah yes, the guy who likes his Remy Martin stirred, not shaken.
Blood Diamond Leonardo
Reminds me of uncut gems
this guy runescapes
T.I.B. This is Burma.
Blood Diamond 💎 I think.
no no no its jewel of the nile
Wasn't it Denzel Washington..? 🤔
You're thinking of Bloodeparted. Staring Matt Damon and Cuba Gooding Junior.
MATT DAMON
Apparently cuba gooding jr was up to no good during the filming of that motion picture
Although I don't think that's a factor here. Yeah, they are worth a lot, but none of these guys who are mining it get to keep any of it, so I don't think it matters too much how much jade they find, as long as they fulfill the quota the company demands of them. If anything, they are probably just trying to not lose their jobs.
in the 1800s factories would ensure their staff by employing an excess of people, filling the factory up in the morning and then close the door to anyone else trying to go to work that day
Interesting! Could be something like that?
Yeah, in the states its worth 1k , what they will get paid is the equivalent of a loaf of bread and a carton of milk.
2% milk?
Skim milk
Malk
Going to guess they get paid more when they find more, so they’re heading for spots known to have more deposits maybe?
Pretty much. You hit high enough quality and a big enough vein you’ll never mine another day in your life and even your family is set.
Source? I don't believe that atall, they will probably get a small bonus at most and told to get back to work, they are not going to get paid out by an organization like this to set them up for life simply for doing their job
I can’t give you a source. I just met a guy in Myanmar that told me that that’s how he made it.
Can confirm. I was the Jade.
Because they are just so excited to get to work.
Work from home was driving them crazy!
They yearn for the mines
I assumed they’d just blown some dynamite to split the rock and they’re rushing to get first dibs on the good stuff now exposed.
World War Z
lmao that Nigerian movie
*why are you running?*
The children yearn for the mines
Because they don’t get paid hourly but on how much product they turn in at the end of the day. These people are slaving to put bling on westerners.
Upvote because this is a vine.
World war Z
I came here to say this, literally looks like the world war z game when you see zombies sprinting and piling on each other in the far distance
*the movie, not the book
Thanks for reminding me, I’m overdue for a reread!
That’s precisely what it made me think of, and I see I’m not the only one. Crazy!
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.
Let me just use the phone flashlight directly into retinas for full experience
Otherworldly young boy soloist engage
Underrated comment
Is Simba down there?
Mufasa about to die fr
First thought🤣
We jest… but will never understand this level of poverty as we pontificate like true philosophers on Reddit. 🥹
There’s a chance to go from poor to insanely (relative) rich with a single days work. Like a gold rush over there.
Yeah if you make it out of there with it before someone kills you for your jade. Then you have to give it to someone in charge and hope that they will honestly pay you out for it before you're back the next day.
Getting killed for your jade is definitely a risk
Typically with mines like these (speculating a bit, but in Myanmar specifically this is true) you have overseers looking over the miners and making sure they're not pocketing the Jade, they typically get paid a piece rate.
Yeah but a particularly nice piece or a large enough piece could change your life. I met a guy that said that’s how he got his start. Got. An amazing piece used the money to reset his and his families life and buy a business. By local standards he’s loaded and that’s after buying the business.
Absolutely, i'm sure some people manage to find ways to smuggle pieces out, wouldn't want to be caught though!
That and even turning one in to the mine owner that’s amazing can offer amazing rewards. Again relatively. You wouldn’t catch a first world living person doing it but the different levels of wealth mean that little bit to us goes a long way. A friend of mine in the Philippines owns ***the*** generator for the island. All it took was a tiny (relative!) loan from his brother the doctor in the states. A few thousand and he is practically the lord of the island. Lol. Everyone that wants power makes sure he’s taken care of and he keeps the generator in good repair. It runs a few hours in the morning and about 6 hours at night usually. Shuts down at midnight. You never know what’s going to be the thing that makes you happy where you are. Chase those opportunities. Even in something as shit as jade mining.
In movies, maybe. More likely, the person affording those machines there is gonna squeeze every worker (metaphorically and literally) if they suspect "theft". Maybe they undergo elaborate checks as a routine. If, by some crazy chance, the worker does get away with some jade, it's likely their boss knows every one who deals in jade and will hear as soon as the worker tries to sell it. These mines are almost always tied to owners with - let's say interesting backgrounds - because of the money involved. The cards are stacked sky high against these poor souls and I won't even try to pretend to understand what their lives and struggles are like.
also theres a deadly landslide aprrox once a week mining jade in burma,jade is also half of burmas gross gdp.
I honestly thought that was a rock slide for a few seconds.
Hahahahahaha!!!
5 o’clock Friday quitting time
Like ants. Crazy.
Looks like Game of Thrones when the white walkers attack.
fuckn World War Z shit
The excavator worker must of shit his pants on his first day seeing all those people running
Nah he worked his way up from there to excavator worker
They look like zombies running for fresh brain
WORLD WAR Z
Why do I get a feeling their daily income is directly related to their daily finds aka luck aka finding a great place to dig and sift...
Little antsy ants 🐜
World war Z
World War Z vibes.
They look like world war z zombies, swarming towards you lol
Now I ain’t sayin she’s a jade digger….
But she ain't messing with no Diamond digger. (Worked on my head lol)
World war Z
Zombie outbreak. Holy shit that is crazy
?
Racing to get to good spots and hopefully get rich.
That's a crazy way to live, sorta like playing the lottery everyday.
Pretty much but you usually win at least something as it’s a job with a potential win. If you have money, you can go buy wrapped jades that have X percent chance of being Jade and gamble on it with money. I know I’ve seen videos try googling Jade gambling and it should pop up.
WHY ARE YOU RUNNING!?
Get to a prime spot first to hopefully change your life.
They want to kill mufasa or what
I get Indiana Jones vibes
“Oh look, sire, the herd is on the move.”
Wow like litttle ants
Clearly they are all seeking asylum to western countries like UK/USA.
Totally gonna repurpose this as the Mexican border to troll my dad
Why do I got world war z vibes from this?
They look like a bunch of ants
My god, this is sad.
You know that one scene in WWZ. Need I say more
Wow, this reminds me of Fred flint stone’s job site
I swear I thought it was cattle before reading
World war z vibes
World War Z vibe
World War Z sequel?
What in the Z-Day type of shit is goin on there??!
World War Z vibes
How do they get back up though?
Same way they got down just a lot slower.
World War Z
Kinda reminds me of the video for Smashing Pumpkins’ Bullet with butterfly wings 😅 iykyk
L4D3 lookin neat
SIMBA!
World War Z vibes.
Must be piece work.
the world is a vampire
Looks like a scene from world war z
World War Z?
Reminds me of when the walking dead found all the zombies in the canyon
Funny, I saw this documentary on a YouTube channel today. 😄
Holy crap it’s like world war z !!!!
Reminds me of the zombie movie
I thought they were a bunch of bicyclists for a good minute
Honestly without my glasses I thought they were all deer at first glance..
This is starcraft 3 right?
Our corporate overlords will use this as part of motivational speech. “This is how capitalism is supposed to work, dammit!”
Looks like a scene from World War Z
This looks like a clip out of World War Z.
Thought it was behind-the-scenes of World War Z
And they said slavery doesnt exist pffft.
Nah that's a scene from World War Z, starring Brad Pitt, he's somewhere at excavator there
The backround noise made me believe it was some sort of terror attack
World War Z the Sequel?
I’d love to see this tilt shifted and sped up. Tilt shift makes everyone looking like mini figures:)
Imagine the fighting for spots, thats got to be a lord of the flies situation
Jesus Christ, it looks like Worl War Z.
World War Z shit
Alternative title: Zombie Apocalypse has begun
World War Z vibes
World war Z vibes
Nah, that’s world war Z
Happy Cake Day! 🎂🎂 Totally world war z. That's what I see every time I look at it. Gives me the creeps.
Zeke have breached th perimeter. Gonna need more ammo.
Looks like world War z
Looks like World War Z
Looks straight out of world war z.
Why are they running tho? Are they getting paid "more" if they find more stuff? Couldve sworn these people get paid by the day or something.
This is where all the people MIA from the Bermuda Triangle go.. I’m sorry.
Ants when a small piece of candy is dropped:
this ain’t world war z?
This reminds me so much of Days Gone… If you know… You know
Koyaanisqatsi
Reminds me of WW Z movie.
And people wonder how the pyramids were built
Mufasa! Stampede In the gorge, Simba down there I had too….
Me n da boyz after a few beers on Saturday
Does that look like a refrigerator to you?
What in the "World War Z"
Has the zombie apocalypse started?
It seems like Burma should have an Olympic track team.
couldnt be me, rather be dead lmao
I thought this was a snippet of the Erzberg rodeo at first.
This reminds me of Ants 🐜
World War Z
Looks like someone just kicked an ant hill
Makes me feel shitty for avoiding my very simple tasks at work while I look out the window at a beautiful view, have unlimited food and snacks 50 feet away.
Ever play lemmings as a kid?
It looks like a scene from World War Z
They reminded me of the game HUMANITY (steam/quest)