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Lots of opinions about this show and the lifestyle thereof-watching it since inception.

Two wells have been productive that have been featured in the series-one with a potential $50 million return, another with a potential $250 million return.

It costs far less than that to uncover the oil, even though it's probably a million dollars a well (guess) and some just don't produce.

None of this would be possible without the roughnecks, who I assumed were paid well.

Perhaps not. Bonus for a roughneck who stays on well from start to finish is about $800.

This seems pretty piss poor. Management can't do it without me-and they show their appreciation for maybe $50 million profit they'll make over time by giving me a paltry $800.

Problem is, most of these guys aren't rocket scientists in the brains department. Particularly if they're younger. Seems to me a lot of them spend their days off drinking pisswater and regretting it the next day when working with a hangover.

I guess that's to be expected? These guys are the oil industry equivalent of cannon fodder.

But you want these guys to do this dangerous job and make you all kinds of cash and you think all that hard work is worth an extra $800 if they actually stay from start to finish?

This just seems wrong by any reasonable standard that would be applied to any bonus situation and is quite paltry when compared with CEO and similar performance packages.

Maybe workers compensation is more lucrative-and safer.

It's just the point that they should be compensated better for all this impossible and dangerous hard work.

They're not going to be compensated like a CEO, but better than an extra $800 for making possible people like Mike LaMonica earning millions and millions more than he already has.

CEO compensation is way out of reality and the vast majority are nothing but white collar criminals. One man was paid (won't say earned because he couldn't possibly have been paid this much without stealing from others and covering it up some way-since this guy is a hedge fund manager who manages other peoples money he's obviously in a position to steal some of it. Anyway, for the year, he was paid $3.7 Billion. That's Billion, with a B. In one year. It probably took Warren Buffett who really worked hard to become the wealthiest man on the planet twenty or twenty five years to accumulate that much wealth-even adjusting for inflation. Clearly anyone who earns four billion dollars in a single year managing other people's money is a thief.

So why doesn't Mike LaMonica acknowledge these guys are worth a lot more than they're getting paid? Of course, the problem would be there's no where in West Texas to spend that kind of wealth and the living conditions aren't conducive to anyone with real money really wanting to live there.

I just get the impression most of these guys do it so they can pay their basic expenses (interesting that the driller often takes them to work- as if some don't have a car of their own, maybe?)-and drink the rest of their paycheck away-which of course leads to accident when they show up drunk or hungover working around all kiinds of equipment that can weigh up to several hundred tons as well of danger of explosion (it was hard to believe when the camera showed several of the roughnecks smoking.)