Mxsmanic wrote in
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The high salaries of some airline pilots are mostly high for historical
reasons. It's best not to look too closely at how much they are
actually worth.

Salaries in general have very little to do with how much the person earning
the salary is worth.

How much is a child's education worth?

What about protection from criminals? Or from fire?

How about emergency medical service to assist you with a medical emergency in
your own home and then transport you quickly to the nearest medical facility?

And yet Schoolteachers, Police, Firefighters, and Emergency Medical
Technicians are typically not high-paid service providers. Sometimes services
such as these are provided by volunteers who are not paid at all.