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People forget about deep sea welders. Literally 15% fatality rate.
That's insane. How in the world do they rationalize that to themselves?
Because they make ridiculous amounts of money. There are very few people who can do the job, it's extremely dangerous and even if you don't get injured or killed, it's very hard on your body. Iirc most divers only do it 2-3 times a year because it takes a long time to safely decompress at the depths they usually work at (it can take days or even weeks) and then they have to take time off to physically and mentally recover.
i wonder if any of them ever decides to retire into an easier job and becomes an astronaut
Compress a large percentage of the world’s wealth into a small fraction of the population and suddenly 150k dollars a year, to potentially more based on the danger, seems worth it to some people.
You act like that's not a ridiculous amount of money and that just shows why things are as bad as they are
It's easy.
You either make a shit load of money or you die.
Win win
Lots of money... like insane money for how much work it is.
It’s a combination of $2000/day wages, combined with a “I’m smarter than all those idiots who died” attitude.