TELL ME WHY should a mariner be paid so much????

TELL ME WHY should a mariner be paid so much????

Economics of nation has played a terrible game in deciding of this factor. My personal honest understanding is that it’s all because of the utter mismanagement. There is absolutely no reason for the soaring salaries of mariner vis-à-vis other professionals. They are not so high- caliber people, especially with the advent of the GPS. Navigation is a waltz now, I know for sure. Cargo- operations is a cake-walk, and marine engineering a vestige of un-complete semiconductor automation. Then why this tumescent salary?? In Indian scenario nothing can best explain it than the very effect of all pervading mismanagement.
During the early years of my cadetship, the crew was getting some Rs 80K salary. Then in year 2001, the massive policy change in the company due to governments impending Disinvestment plans, the SCI took up a Revamping, and reduced the crew salary to it’s real worth. They are ‘right’ paid now; so do the officers’ think. But what remained undone was the salary structure of the officers’ themselves. They could still soar high above only for the artificially, or say mis- managerially, created dearth of people. Year 2003 saw a brief glimpse of such nature only, when due to excessive flooding of officers’ in the market, they ran around on all kinds of vessels. The moral>>> with the abundance, the demand, and effectively the monopoly, can be easily curbed.
Give me a reason why the employer should not induct away so many people so as to ‘flood’ the market and then sit on the negotiation table??! Who will demand, and who will grant??! Tell me?? There is a sheer over-estimation of owns worth from the mariners’ community all over.
My disparate views cannot be the reasons for putting me outcast anyways. The strength of unity can never bring dead to life, or overturn the face of truth; period.
There are so many kinds of professionals in the market all over. They all have their right and the justified payment structure. What decides the true worth of a mariner in relation to the true worth of a software professional, or even a doctor?? What? He stays away from home for so long? , or takes so much risk as to go out to sea?, or the cargo he carries is worth millions? Does no other category of professionals fill up these lines? Is a patient’s life not worth a million? Then why not a doctor? Is a software guy not so high educated? Does an engineer not do an ingenious job?
Then how do the Europeans pay their mariners? Are they so much hi-salaried people there also??
Okay then, how do we decide who should be paid how much? Where will all the money earned from such hi-cost running of ship be disbursed? To its commercial managers, who sit-back safe in their offices with no inkling of the power of green seas? To the company? Will it not be a case of Profiteering, then? A profit-bringing worker must get his rightful money anyways. So how do we decide?
Don’t judge the side of righteousness by the side of the fence you are born in. it may even be on the other side. Make an unbiased honest observation, please.