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> What can we do for those trapped in poverty whose only ticket out was enlistment? You just give them the fucking food, education, and healthcare. Look at th
by micromacrofoot 5y ago
> What can we do for those trapped in poverty whose only ticket out was enlistment?
You just give them the fucking food, education, and healthcare. Look at the current US military budget and tell me that's impossible.
The military is not offering "good" — it's offering the roll of a dice. Sure, one side says "good" but you've got a "death" side too. Wealthy people do not have to roll this dice at all.
The majority of our lives has featured a "war" almost entirely based on false pretenses. Thousands of soldiers died. Do you think their families were happy about having this on-ramp to class mobility?
I had recruiters coming to my house and deriding my living conditions to get me to enlist when I was 17. It's predatory, abhorrent, and not even remotely "good."
- trash001 5y ago> You just give them the fucking food, education, and healthcare. Look at the current US military budget and tell me that's impossible. It’s impossible. Here is some analysis: https://hwfo.substack.com/p/peace-in-ukraine-and-universal-healthcare?s=r https://hwfo.substack.com/p/peace-in-ukraine-and-universal-h...
- micromacrofoot 5y agoThis almost entirely ignores the phenomenon of insurance companies inflating healthcare costs and making incredibly large profits. Health insurance industry profits ($31bn in 2020) are almost equivalent to what your link says the entire military expenditure for the European theater is ($35bn in 2018). Not to mention the bureaucratic, political, and productivity costs plus the costs to employers and what individuals pay out of pocket.
- trash001 5y ago
- nobody9999 5y ago>It’s impossible. Nothing is impossible. Well, except certain classes of time travel into the past.
- trash001 5y ago