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Did you know that dive-masters and instructors are one of the lowest paid jobs out there. Where I live they pay around 5-6 Euros an hour. If you work in cleaning you get double that. But imagine this...a dive-master/instructor needs months of training + has a huge responsibility for the people they dive with. You can die underwater, it is dangerous. And yet they are paid nothing. Many places do not pay at all they say that you should work for free to "gain experience" as a diver....

That's the world we live in. Value doesn't mean anything more than random trading value. A painting can be more valuable than saving a million people from starvation. Our society is insane. And TROM II is all about exposing that, since we need to first understand how and why it is insane.

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Liwott
Liwott
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Setting aside for a moment the question of whether or not it is fair that people get paid according to a trading value, I would not call this value random. It makes sense to me that a clearly diminishing but absolutely necessary task like cleaning is given more value than making possible a leisure activity like diving.
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Tio
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That's your view of course, and there is some truth in it, however it is cleaning for tourists. Tourists who come for leisure time. Not really necessary either. Not saying that work is not valuable, however being a dive-master requires a lot of responsibility for people's lives. Neither of those jobs, or any otehr job for that matter, has a real value in the trade game - it is quite random. A fotball player can make a lot more than a physicist. An instagram "influencer" can make more than a doctor. And so on...
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