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Many other social welfare programs require you to do X or Y to keep receiving benefits as well. From a societal level its absolutely used as a social welfare pr

Many other social welfare programs require you to do X or Y to keep receiving benefits as well. From a societal level its absolutely used as a social welfare program to create opportunities for lower class individuals to advance. Thats even used as a part of their recruitment pitch! If you can handle the military service its well known that its a very easy way to make 6 figure salary is to join the military get a high clearance level and then go get a job that requires the clearance after you leave. Its also a social welfare program in the sense that its goal is to create jobs/employment/training more so than to accomplish its ostensible mission of winning wars. (see how aggressively states try to keep military bases nearby, and a little thing called the military industrial complex)

hunterb123 5y ago
Most social welfare programs have limitations as requirements, which has a negative effect. It keeps people content with the welfare because if they work they no longer qualify for it. A lot of the time the welfare will pay similar to a job so they won't bother with the slight increase. The military you put your 4 years in, you get your experience, and you earn your GI bill for further education (or you go into private security or whatever your job in the military was). I've known people who went into programming after doing it in the military. Chefs, airline pilots, IT analysts, etc. It's more of a jobs program than a welfare program.
- jleyank 5y ago
  Officers = jobs, enlisted = welfare if you want a naive partitioning. Although high-ranking NCO's probably do quite well as they actually do/direct the work. Officers just look good :-).
  - hunterb123 5y ago
    Welfare has a connotation that there's no work done for your pay, there's a lot of work done for it, and it's hard work. Btw noone likes officers due to their lack of work required / cushy status. Honestly that's the welfare of the military, giving out a sense of purpose and power to trust fund kids :p

hunterb123 5y ago

Most social welfare programs have limitations as requirements, which has a negative effect. It keeps people content with the welfare because if they work they no longer qualify for it. A lot of the time the welfare will pay similar to a job so they won't bother with the slight increase. The military you put your 4 years in, you get your experience, and you earn your GI bill for further education (or you go into private security or whatever your job in the military was). I've known people who went into programming after doing it in the military. Chefs, airline pilots, IT analysts, etc. It's more of a jobs program than a welfare program.

jleyank 5y ago
Officers = jobs, enlisted = welfare if you want a naive partitioning. Although high-ranking NCO's probably do quite well as they actually do/direct the work. Officers just look good :-).
- hunterb123 5y ago
  Welfare has a connotation that there's no work done for your pay, there's a lot of work done for it, and it's hard work. Btw noone likes officers due to their lack of work required / cushy status. Honestly that's the welfare of the military, giving out a sense of purpose and power to trust fund kids :p