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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.

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, where the dangerous job was "hunt something so you don't starve", the motivation for doing the dangerous job is pretty obvious.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not if you live in any kind of group. "Why should I go hunt? You do it." And then I get excluded from the group - that could still happen.

(I'm spitballing, I know nothing about anything, just interested bystander)

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago

If you're interested, you could look it up.

Here's a quick start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgesellschaft

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I genuinely appreciate the shithead responses. Thats how I handle threads a lot of the time too.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not meant purely as shithead responses. I can't contribute anything substantial to the discussion but I'm interested, so I'm throwing out random thoughts to bits and pieces and trying not to sound like I consider myself an authority on anything.

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

You are describing shit head responses.