"although I'd never force people do only have a choice of an armed force."
One of my cousins took a different path than myself and signed up for the Peace Corps in a township in South Africa in about late 80s/early 90s.
Going back a couple generations there was the CCC in the 1930s. Seeing as the 00s and 10s are turning into an echo of the 30s, a new CCC might be a good idea.
There is a pretty substantial difference between one weekend a month/two weeks per summer in the reserves and basically a full time jobs program, but with a couple regulation changes that could be fixed rather quickly. So rather than one year deployments in the PC and CCC we'd do weekend or half month deployments. I suppose the transportation industries would enjoy being selected as the winner in that situation.
This is a classic macro / micro problem from economics where some people just won't look macro. WRT "game student loan recipients" or rent/land anywhere in the nation, all it would do is drip an extra $10K/yr $20K/yr whatever worth of blood in the water for the piranhas to attack. If you think they wouldn't raise prices out of the goodness of their heart, well... And every industry is run by sociopaths because if they were not, they'd out compete and destroy the non-sociopaths.
If you want to change the existing power structures or change demographic trends, merely making rich wolves richer by giving them fatter sheep to shear isn't going to help.
One of my cousins took a different path than myself and signed up for the Peace Corps in a township in South Africa in about late 80s/early 90s.
Going back a couple generations there was the CCC in the 1930s. Seeing as the 00s and 10s are turning into an echo of the 30s, a new CCC might be a good idea.
There is a pretty substantial difference between one weekend a month/two weeks per summer in the reserves and basically a full time jobs program, but with a couple regulation changes that could be fixed rather quickly. So rather than one year deployments in the PC and CCC we'd do weekend or half month deployments. I suppose the transportation industries would enjoy being selected as the winner in that situation.
This is a classic macro / micro problem from economics where some people just won't look macro. WRT "game student loan recipients" or rent/land anywhere in the nation, all it would do is drip an extra $10K/yr $20K/yr whatever worth of blood in the water for the piranhas to attack. If you think they wouldn't raise prices out of the goodness of their heart, well... And every industry is run by sociopaths because if they were not, they'd out compete and destroy the non-sociopaths.
If you want to change the existing power structures or change demographic trends, merely making rich wolves richer by giving them fatter sheep to shear isn't going to help.