While you do need to pay someone to do painful/disgusting/dangerous tasks, it's probably less than you think.
I'm a garbage man: if you wanna hire me away, you gotta beat $15.94 per hour. The private haulers (Waste Management and Rabanco) pay less than that, supposedly.
I guess $32K/year might be a decent enough wage for a no-brainer job, but think about how many medical wastes, rancid foodstuffs, and asbestos (and everything else) you gotta handle for that money. I'd rather work where the most dangerous thing there is the coffee I'm drinking...
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While you do need to pay someone to do painful/disgusting/dangerous tasks, it's probably less than you think.
I'm a garbage man: if you wanna hire me away, you gotta beat $15.94 per hour. The private haulers (Waste Management and Rabanco) pay less than that, supposedly.
I guess $32K/year might be a decent enough wage for a no-brainer job, but think about how many medical wastes, rancid foodstuffs, and asbestos (and everything else) you gotta handle for that money. I'd rather work where the most dangerous thing there is the coffee I'm drinking...
The "Garbage" episode of "This American Life" is kinda interesting: http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=249