Pay Based On Risk Involved?

Someone told me not too long ago that people who put their lives most at risk by what they do should get paid the most. At first, I thought, okay, maybe. What'd he then talk about? Bikers and skateboarders.

Those are games, sports, activities, whatever one wants to call them. Is he trying to tell me that firefighters and police officers would be grouped together in the same class as bikers and skateboarders? What about people who pay money in order to skydive or bungee jump? Should these people be getting paid because they're putting their lives at risk? What about actors with stunt doubles? What about Jackie Chan? Baseball players? NASCAR drivers? Golfers? A delusional paranoid individual who believes they are in constant danger when they really are not?

I really wish this guy would've laid down more specifics other than that bikers and skateboarders should get paid more because they put their lives on the line. All I can say is cops and firefighters put their lives on the line to protect and save others. Bikers and skateboarders don't risk injury for those same reasons. When there's a biking and skateboarding squad that tours the country and saves lives in the process, then let me know and we can start talking and comparing the two occupations.