0xen 🎩
@0xen
The career path posts reminds me of my most collectivist and also most nationalist take: bring back conscription a la post war Germany. Everyone, male and female should be required to do 2 years of civil or military service. All classes have skin in the game, eliminates the warrior class, war isn’t an abstraction, conscription is a deterrent for wanton reckless military action. Shared experience creates lifelong bonds and cohesion across race and sex.
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aferg
@aferg.eth
I was thinking about this recently. Give free university but require military service. Could potentially help with the crippling student debt problem, housing, doctor shortages, the lack of critical thinking among the population, unemployment among young people, understaffing/underfunding of NATO countries and probably more that I haven’t thought of.
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qt
@qt
Do you really think that America would ever let JobCorps be on par with live-round cannon fodder service?? I fully align with you and the sentiment but think about the water this fishbowl holds. Not trying to be a doomer but its hard to even imagine a world where US Hegemony supports anything like this 😭 Teach4America, PeaceCorps, any other "woke" bullshit is just a succubus on appropriations that could go to bullets /s
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Once we’re post AI-driven economic ossification this is our only hope for cross strata societal understanding
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
I think Israel has this (not being political, I just know a number of well-to-do Israeli men and women who do seem shaped in a meaningful way by that shared experience)
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Spark
@sparkonchain
I quiet like this take. Service as a way to increase skin in the game and feeling of national identity + increase awareness of the consequences of war. In to many places young people are pressured into starting a „career“ too early. This could take some steam out of that
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