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People want to climb Maslow's hierarchy in every area of their lives. If bus drivers had better pay and job security (so much so that they hit the region of diminishing returns), maybe we'd see more talk from drivers about wishing they were driving especially important buses.

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> If bus drivers had better pay and job security...

City bus drivers are often public employees represented by a powerful union. Hence their pay and job security are often pretty good by most peoples' standards.

I really need to stick up for city bus drivers, speaking as a regular passenger. They deal constantly with crazy, disruptive, violent people whilst getting other riders safely from point to point operating a large vehicle.

It’s a difficult and socially valuable job and they earn their money.

And so do Uber drivers

>It’s a difficult and socially valuable job and they earn their money.

I was not implying otherwise, if that's what you thought.

Not at all! It was a reply to further back comments about bus drivers.

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