Congratulation, here's a medical cheque for $0.00 for your 9/11 ground zero work

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Hephaestos said:

Now you would be correct KBG if we could assume that these people had the IQ to understand they were putting themselves at risk and that the pay was not worth it... as it stands, the guys probably took that as a standard cleaning job, didn't use his mask or changed it every 2 hours ("it ripped with my sweat"... yeah if you wear it 5 days), and probably didn't do any of this by selflessness but only for the $$.

Now yeah you can say... "he wanted easy $$, too bad it came with cancer"... or you can say... "big companies don't care and used his greed"... but you can't say that heroes don't deserve recognition... I don't think this guy is a hero (heck he was just cleaning the place), nor comes even close to being one... but you talked in general terms... and for example, the firefighters and policemen who died evacuating people deserve recognition and benefits for their families.

Bottom line here is that companies should be responsible for having a safe workplace with an acceptable level of worker protection. Even if he was getting paid $100 per hour. In this case, it was quite obvious that there was all kinds of toxic crap floating around there, someone has to be responsible for ensuring safety.