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Nobody's realistically expecting anyone to go from peasant to general. That's an obtuse red herring. What does happen is that everyone worth a crap gets their
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Nobody's realistically expecting anyone to go from peasant to general. That's an obtuse red herring.
What does happen is that everyone worth a crap gets their career fast tracked. People go from machinist to plant operator or from junior officer to general in a year, etc, etc. People who would have been promoted because they know someone are passed over because when things are serious like in wartime people feel they cannot get away with forgoing more promising people for those kinds of people.
People who would have had to work a whole career to break between class levels can do it in a fraction of the time.
- enkid 5y agoLook, the article is making a historical argument, and your talking about the modern ways wars are fought. I believe the author has an incorrect belief about how historically battles were won, and I pointed to several historical examples. Now, you can either refute my examples or provide your own, but pointing to the way the military runs today does nothing for my argument that historically "winning a battle" was not a great method of social mobility yo "elite" status.