Most people do have other choices than the military

THIS, is your privilege showing.

This is your normalized worldview because, to you, you had other options. Most people do, right? Meanwhile ignoring the minority of hundreds millions.....

Lets do some math real quick.

What percent of households make less than $30k net?

It's about 23.5% of America...

23.5% of 350milllion people. Actually, lets be fair here and only use that adult populate of 205.7million and round it down

23.5% of 200million?

47million people a struggling.

How many of them do you think have better options?

Most of them, right? Lets say 95% of them have better options, so, of 5% of 47million?

That's 2.35 million people that don't have better options....

what's the size of the US active duty military?

US has 1.33 million active duty military.... Obviously, not everyone in the military is some empoverished slave. The gungho yipee types do exist too.

But, just guess, what ratio do you think of those two types of people exist in 1.33 million? I'll do you a solid, I'll say that the gunghos outweigh 2:1....

That's ~400,000 people who were poor, likely with no other options.

NONE of this excuses the actions of the American imperalist military. This is the system working as intended. Keep the people poor, and dangle socialism through military service.

If you didn't have to choose between military and homeless, or Amazon and homeless... if you had other options, I'm happy for you, I am, really. It's a privilege to have the opportunity and luck to do something else.... but you're using that privilege to punch down by ignoring the millions who didn't have your opportunities.