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Author: Bobchillingworth

May 8th 2013 at 11:48:52 PM

That's naive and more importantly irrelevant.  If the only standard for a real life "Good Pays Better" example is 'does not openly recruit psychopaths' then you should include 99.9% of professions.  You are also ignoring the point that bounty hunters do not even fit the trope as presently described, since there is no evidence that they earn more than "criminals" or other morally questionable forms of employment.  It also implies that bounty hunters face a quandary of whether or not to earn a living through deliberate cruelty, since "good pays '''better'''" inherently requires an alternative; you could easily argue that billions of other people make the same "decision".  Furthermore TvTropes has a policy against labeling groups of actual people with the blanket designations of "good" or "bad".  This is a good trope idea (although it occupies an awfully specific niche between the various existent "good is pleasurable / powerful" tropes), but I don't think it's ready for prime time with a RL section, especially not with such a subjective and confusing example.