Under capitalism, a lot of the time, highly dangerous jobs are also highly paid. Kind of a balance that the individual decides to engage with. Same idea behind getting an advanced degree in STEM or law. I think of my job by example, I’m a power plant operator at a large combined cycle plant. No fucking shot I’d be doing this if the pay wasn’t good. I’m around explosive and deadly hot shit all day.
Same as the incentives under any other economic system: Ambition, adventurousness, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I’ll bring up working in a steel mill again.
So your thinking is that you don’t want to live in a world where people aren’t coerced into doing jobs they hate, because then you personally wouldn’t be coerced into doing the job you hate? Just saying you might consider looking for other work.
I want to live in a world that functions. If nobody does a lot of the jobs I’m talking about, the world ceases to function. I love my job and schedule, but, I wouldn’t engage in the risk associated if I wasn’t compensated at the level I am.
The world as we know it is rapidly approaching the point where it’s going to cease to function. Ecology matters, and climate change is going to wreck the world economy we know and love if war doesn’t wreck it first. Whether hypothetical future better-organized societies should choose to put as much effort into steelmaking as we do seems highly questionable, but it’s up to them.