take a look at how their pensions work and and what it costs you and you might reconsider (basically, it's a similar deal to the police pension mafia)

Yeah the classic case is the firefigher who puts in 20 years, retires in his 40s with a full pension and then starts a second career or business.

And maybe that's fair compensation for someone who has been working a job that literally risks his life, but it's not cheap.

Oh no, a blue collar profession getting a lucrative wage! That's a right normally reserved for white collar vectoralists like surveillance industry software engineers. Quick, call all the other crabs in the bucket!

There are legitimate critiques of the perverse incentives of defined benefit pensions, but on the whole I'd say it's better to pay attention to why the overwhelming standard is for people to not be paid well.

(Police unions are indeed a scourge. But similarly, the amount they get paid is like one of the things I am least concerned about)