Imperializt Russia wrote:Olivaero wrote:Well, it can provide training and ultimately proffesional skills it's certainly better to have it on a resume than nothing. Sure there are parts of the military that are money pits but even speaking as some one who is generally politically pacifistic it can be a good option if the choice is between sitting at home on the doll or actually doing something.
The dole is going to be significantly, hugely cheaper for the state.
Like, orders of magnitude. Orders, plural.
It is also soul destroying, I speak as some one who has been on it and knows a lot of people who are basically trapped in it. Not by the idea it's self but by the permanently shitty employment market which has very unfair barriers to entry.
The military, and I say this as a very pro-military person, detracts manpower and government funds from the economy. A person on the dole can re-enter the job market and contribute again.
The US military once valued the worth of a soldier at several million dollars, IIRC. A lot more than your average doley. They pay out six hundred grand if they're killed.
Each American serviceperson deployed overseas to Afghanistan was costing between $850k to $1.4mn - each.
I couldn't even imagine how it detracts money from the economy, your going to have to show me how that works. A person who goes onto the dole after being in the job market before may be able to easily re-enter yeah, a person who hasn't could be stuck in a merciless cycle of unemployment which they have less and less enthusiasm to break. Did I mention the part where it was soul destroying? Military adventurism now I can see why that would be monumentally more expensive than being on the dole but I'm not suggesting deploying large numbers of troops overseas in combat operations is a good thing.
