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Shooting in NYC
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Originally posted by bilmore
our entire worker-protection system is sort of built around the concept that we don't let higher pay or nicer conditions or shorter hours or . . . whatever . . . substitute for worker safety. Thus, you can't pay your steelworkers extra if they're willing to forgo the costly tying-off process for high work, and you can't let them have shorter shifts if you can take those pesky and speed-killing guards off of their presses, and the like.
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But riskier jobs pay more, so your point is true only with regard to some minimum standards. A guy named Kip Viscusi has done interesting economic work aimed at determining the value of life, etc., reflected in the judgments people make in taking such jobs.
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