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> you can't make people choose to start or keep working in your sweatshop If you're a government, you can; it's called a draft. The US seems to be preparing fo
by phoe-krk 6mo ago
> you can't make people choose to start or keep working in your sweatshop
If you're a government, you can; it's called a draft. The US seems to be preparing for it.
- pjc50 6mo agoCan't really corveé labour skilled jobs which require passing a lot of exams. Even in the military.
- defrost 6mo agoWhat you can do, at state scale, is pass everybody through a services training filter and sit them under the sorting hat after three months to winnow out skills and potentials of interest. Some are clear rejects, some are good for getting up early and walking perimeters, others would suit the motor pool. An occasional few will gel for traffic control, signal intell, etc. The trick then, for a state, is to incentivize with carrots, sticks, patriotic abstractions like duty, etc. the ones they want for the jobs they have. Now its time for levelling up training.
- eesmith 6mo agoThe characters in the movie and TV series MAS*H included unwilling civilian draftees who were doctors drafted to serve in the Korean War. Doctors need to pass a lot of exams.
- general1465 6mo agoYou can draft a doctor, from pool of doctors. You can't draft ATC, because there is no pool of spare ATCs. It would be like drafting air defense operators - there is no pool of them outside military.
- eesmith 6mo agoI'm pretty sure some of the air traffic controllers for military airfields in WWII were draftees, just like many air defense operators were draftees before the military became an all-volunteer force in 1973. We know from the PATCO strike there is a pool of spare ATCs, including "military controllers, and retired personnel who temporarily returned to service". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Professional_Air_Traffic_... Thus, retired civilian personnel is a possible draft pool for a skilled job like ATC which require passing a lot of exams. That pool is small, certainly, but it was enough to break PATCO.
- johng 6mo agoIf the recent news about moving lots of soldiers from EU Nato installations back home is true, they'll have a ton of trained active military ATC's available to use in the US soon.
- arvid-lind 6mo agoI think you've forgotten that the original post was about hiring gamers to do this job.
- general1465 6mo agoWhich they can't do unless they are heavily trained.