What a Midwife Wishes People Knew About Her Job

Re:What a Midwife Wishes People Knew About Her Job by claudiawerner on Monday May 06, 2019 @03:32AM (#19837496)

Train drivers tend to be paid very highly, and I've heard the reason for that is a kind of risk. If something goes wrong (which it really can do catastrophically) then they shoulder the risk.

To look at it from the other side, don't apologists for capital say that the boss should collect profit (and in perpetuity too) because of the "risk" she took to start the company?

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Re:What a Midwife Wishes People Knew About Her Job by kabouseng on Monday May 06, 2019 @04:49AM (#19837798)

I don't think train drivers earns high pay because of risk, but rather it takes a long time to properly train train drivers (especially freight trains), there is scarcity of skill, and the potential damages of a train crash warrants paying more for better skilled drivers to minimize the chance. The risk the driver takes on doesn't really get factored in.

Edit spelling.

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Re:What a Midwife Wishes People Knew About Her Job by lnsru on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:39AM (#19838443)

Train drivers have sometimes very short careers and can’t work anymore: https://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/rail-suicide-a-...

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