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These men from decades ago and before are why you live your easy privileged life. The risks they took built society. If you think "Bullshit Jobs" is real then
by aaron695 4y ago
These men from decades ago and before are why you live your easy privileged life.
The risks they took built society.
If you think "Bullshit Jobs" is real then I hope you realise that's exactly you. These men are doing real work. And the idea they could just get other work is pretty insulting.
How much OH&S should be done in today's society is complicated. But what still keeps society running is a whole class of men doing hard dangerous work.
(And this an awful example about working from heights, that kicks in at 7 feet. The fact it start low is what matters. He is doing speciality work which is totally seperate and obvious he'd die)
- Teandw 4y agoI'll think you'll find that your take on things is what gets people killed and exactly why health and safety/OSHA exist like they do today.
- HL33tibCe7 4y agoYes, many people in my family actually work(ed) in the building profession, and are/were “real men”. They are/were more passionate than anyone about safety in building, because they have literally seen people killed when safety was poor.
- dale_glass 4y agoThe jobs are things that needed doing, yes. Doing them in a dangerous, cavalier way? Not really. A bridge isn't really improved in any way if 20 people die falling from it during construction. And yeah, maybe that kind of thing made the bridge noticeably cheaper, but was it cheaper really when you account for the effects those deaths had? We pay less for the bridge, then pay more for funerals, compensations, negative effects that workers dying had... it's just nowhere in the bill for the bridge.