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Rishi Sunak announcing national service plans (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you guys made it into a literal lottery.

But besides that, the proposal is even worse than just conscription. His plan is that there'll be about 30,000 placements in the armed forces, which will of course be paid. Everyone else will have to do 25 days of unpaid "volunteering". Of the volunteering is mandatory and your parents will be fined if you don't do it.

Effectively it's slave labour for the poor and pay so you don't need to do it for the rich.

Luckily it's extremely likely he's not going to get to try to bring it in. They're about 20 points behind in the polls and on some they've actually been falling further behind since calling the election.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I mean, you guys made it into a literal lottery.

Exactly! Those people were drafted and sent to fight an unpopular war in a country that most of them didn't even know existed until then. The rich were able to dodge it by paying off the right people and others had to leave as political refugees. I think that a lot of Americans learned to fear mandatory government service due that policy.

Effectively it's slave labour for the poor and pay so you don't need to do it for the rich.

The story of human society continues as normal.