• Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    The military is a jobs program that many people are eligible for, who might not be able to get work elsewhere. There’s a reason that the military has many lower income and minority members, and why paying for a college education is such an important part of the compensation. If you have better options you should take those, but many don’t.

    The idea that the US has a volunteer military is mostly propaganda. This country does a lot economic coercion to drive recruitment.