Society undervalues those jobs that without people doing them no matter what the conditions, risk and low pay society would disintegrate. Nurses are the ones who provide the majority of of our medical care when we need it most, most of us when we come to the end of our lives will be reliant on them to ensure we don’t suffer and are looked after, be it at home, hospice or hospital, my wife is a district nurse, the toll on her team this last year has been awful, so much death, so many very sick patients being let out of hospital to soon to free up space, having the trauma of care homes to deal with( yes the district nurses are the ones who still had to go into these to administer care) short numbers have led them to effectively work 10 hour shifts day in day out, have they complained during this no, they have gotten on with it because someone had too. I doubt any of you who believe 1% on top of what is already a pitifully low salary is good enough would last a day even an hour in this job. There is such undervaluing of this and other key jobs in our society it is truly awful.
By the way I am at the polar opposite, working in the city, my annual bonus is sometimes more than my wife’s salary, this isn’t right, I moan about stress and work long hours but it’s on me, it’s nothing compared to the daily mental toll nurses go through.