Yeah it's kind of dialectically linked, for a material to be that useful, it is going to be bad if you inhale it.
A crank belief of mine is asbestos could probably be used completely safely at some point under a later stage of socialism where we don't have the perils of capitalism or even minor bureaucrats making quotas to risk lives.
Yeah it's called "purchase leave" in a Australia, it's not super common yet, but it's like a payday loan for paid holiday leave. You take time off paid but make up for it later by salary deduction over a period of time.