Well written. This was my thought as well. "Heroic" language is also deployed to distract from the exploitation of humans financially coerced into doing danger

Well written. This was my thought as well. "Heroic" language is also deployed to distract from the exploitation of humans financially coerced into doing dangerous or stressful jobs. The clearest example I can think of is the public glorying, on certain types of public holiday, in the "heroic sacrifice" of all the soldiers who were marched pointlessly into machine gun fire in WW1.