Those in the Imperial Core will never understand that what they consider unbearable hardship and boredom is actually a life of luxury that the vast majority of people on Earth cannot even imagine.
The international division of labor is 1000x more important and impactful than the domestic one.
'you should be killing and dying 1,000 miles from home at the ripe old age of 30' is not the compliment they think that is
History factoid time: Legionaries mostly lived freakishly long and healthy lives compared to the rest of the population. Apparently they generally had better food, health, and dental care than normal people, they got lots of exercise but not the kind of heavy manual labor that breaks you down, and they didn't do much actual fighting, so most of them made it through their 25 year term and retired
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i mean relatively speaking it was the healthiest job a poor person could get involved in with the exercise and regular nutrition, but i suspect you weren't making it very long after that retirement