> [job] … has come at a personal cost.
Congratulations, you just described most jobs. And many backbreaking laborers make about the same or less, even in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.
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These types of articles always have an elitist view of the workers hired. That's a big source of the right (in the US) despising the left. The left don't say it directly, but when they talk about how shitty their town is and how the job they have is exploitative, there's an implicit judgment on the persons who live/work there.