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There are around 18 million college students and 2 million members of the armed forces. Your proposed solution can’t possibly work due to this discrepancy. It

There are around 18 million college students and 2 million members of the armed forces. Your proposed solution can’t possibly work due to this discrepancy. It is good though that you agree there is a problem and it needs a solution. One proposal is to shrink the military budget. Spending on national defense is more than double the money spent on public schools in higher education.

anovikov 3y ago
It can, because 60% of students are women and very few of those are needed in the armed forces, so half are out. Plus service is normally 3 years while uni lasts 5. So around 5M men can be enlisted. And everyone sees the writing on the wall that university education has overshoot it's facility: the marginal student today certainly net loses in life as a result of education, not wins. It needs to shrink. Armed forces on the other hand, will def. need to grow given the insane shit that's going on. 4M enlisted resulting in 6.5M male students and 12M students overall looks about right.
- Timon3 3y ago
  > It can, because 60% of students are women and very few of those are needed in the armed forces, so half are out. You know that women are people too, right? It's not acceptable to solve a problem by simply ignoring the problem for half your population.