Sometimes I wonder if we were just a different type of people 100 years ago. People were standing in the balcony while it was being lifted? Going to work as normal!? Society would never tolerate such risk these days.
You think? I think most of them were wondering if that shit is safe. Tell me you'd work on the sixth floor thinking it's absolutely fine that you don't know the qualifications of the engineers who cooked this up, nor the odds of this going horribly wrong with you under a pile of rubble.
Or would you rather be thinking, like I imagine most of the workers were, "doesn't matter what I think, boss said if I don't get my ass to work, I'm fired. And no one wants to get fired during THE GREAT DEPRESSION."
An entire family of 4 riding on a single motorcycle without helmets in heavy traffic? Normal in India. Would generate new for weeks if done in the USA, parents would be arrested for child abuse.