> Technology hasn't changed is a political problem due to lack of... money.
Tell me you haven’t worked in aerospace without telling me you haven’t worked in aerospace. There is plenty of money sunk into all corners of the field but progress is slow because the risk of change is lives lost. At some point, the risk of not changing means more lives lost… and that’s when things will change.
Money only does so much to improve your life. Stress is a way to shorten your life. Long term chronic stress literally makes you ill in ways that medicine can’t fix.
Paying more money can make a huge difference to stress. Obviously it can't make an hour of doing the work less stressful in itself, but more money could do one or more of the following:
- Allow people to retire after a decade rather than several decades of work
- Allow (or require) people to only work part-time (eg 2 days a week, or 5 days of 2 hours a day, or...) while still earning a full time equivalent salary
- Allow a work day to be 10mins on, 50mins resting for every hour (requiring 6x as many staff), while paying as if the full hour was work
- Pay for therapy, stress-management lessons, etc.
- Pay for a professional cleaner at home, a part-time chef or lots of restaurant/takeaway meals, or whatever else helps
to minimise the amount of work you need to do outside the job
- Probably other ideas that haven't come into my mind in the two minutes I've spent on the subject of how more money can help fight issues caused by stress
Tell me you haven’t worked in aerospace without telling me you haven’t worked in aerospace. There is plenty of money sunk into all corners of the field but progress is slow because the risk of change is lives lost. At some point, the risk of not changing means more lives lost… and that’s when things will change.