There's a story of the US war machine making a bunker buster bomb back during the first Gulf war doing something similar...

https://www.ausairpower.net/GBU-28.html

> If the workers had been expected to do this for normal wages, this wouldn't have happened.

I know some people really believe that people are only motivated by monetary incentives, but this isn't the reality of mankind. People do make sacrifice without monetary compensation all the time.

Unlike what microeconomics-obsessed people think, workers don't make sophistivated economic calculations, instead they mostly care about being treated fairly.

And I glad people aren't like how microeconomics model them, because the world simply wouldn't work otherwise.