User blog comment:Martialmaniac/Why the Hunters Association?/@comment-10528819-20151205110311

I think is pretty much what you said. Also nen can be learn by anybody so even if they didn't let dangerous people pass the exam if they learned nen and we were at the good deed of people we would probably all die, so an organization to protect us from this would be nescessary. Also hunters can take on things that normal people naver could and that can result in way more money for the countries than what they spente, for example, if someone actually got the ghost stone the country wiuld be rich beyond expectations.

Besides that hunters aren't payed by salary, htey are paid by comission, they only receive after completing a job, that's why Gon and Killua had trouble getting money to buy the Greed Island game.

Also I think that the dangerous people being able to pass the exam is Netero's doing, the chairmen could change that if he want, and even the examires could try to take those people out during their tests but Netero so far didn't mind those people and decided to allow them