What is conscription? A "fun" way to waste a year of your life doing unpaid labor in some camp. Oh, sorry, it's not "unpaid", the wage is 8 euros.

"What's the big deal?" you say. "8 euros sounds decent for a guaranteed job for 1 year in a place with very low living costs compared to the US. That's about the minimum wage here". And that would be true, if it was 8 euros per hour. Except it is 8 euros PER MONTH. It's almost a joke, like I have no clue what you're supposed to do with 8 euros. But I guess they give you shitty food and a shitty bunker bed to sleep? Awesome. Oh wait they're now saying they're gonna increase the wage to 30 euros. Impressive. Except they're probably doing it because they want to make conscription last longer than a year, whoo!!

Basically it's a great place where a bunch of weirdos with anger issues scream at you while you're mopping floors and you just have to ignore them every day for a year, if you don't have anything left to do in there you can leave for a while but you have to be back by midnight, and you can only take leaves for a total of 18 days throughout the whole year. Dumbasses tend to become fashy in there too. What an amazing institution, I'm so fucking happy the state doesn't want to pay people to work in camps so they just have us do it for free. It's really wild how much you can get away with if you promote it as patriotic.

    • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      In a socialist state that "young adults giving a few years to serve society, then going about their lives" would be one way to create whatever level of policing is necessary. It wouldn't be a career, it wouldn't self-select for the people most eager to do it, and more people would be better educated about what their rights are and how to use them. Imagine a mass protest where half of the people intimately know how the cops will respond and exactly what will give them the most trouble.

        • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, make it needed work that someone has to do and pay young adults well to do it. There are all sorts of jobs that wouldn't naturally attract a ton of interest in an ideal society that this would be perfect for.

    • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      In an ideal society all people would work for the advancement of communism at all ages; only they wouldn't need to be forced into doing so by threat of going to jail or being barred from accessing basic services.