I work in medicine, and one of the hospitals in our system is the VA. I have literally no interest in serving veterans; people who fight in wars for America pretty much stand and act against everything I believe in. It's not necessarily that I think these people don't deserve great healthcare, it's that I don't want to be the one giving it to them. I would much rather spend my time serving people from my community who didn't spend large parts of their lives wrecking other communities.
Sure, some of my patients anywhere are going to be complete assholes. Sure, there are a lot of veterans who weren't involved in combat (but they did directly aid those in combat at least, right?). Idk, is there a perspective I'm not seeing here? Is it wrong for me to be morally opposed to working for the VA?
That's actually somewhat of a myth. I'm sure there are cases of it being true, but as a whole modern army recruits come from middle class families.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200819190100if_/https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/04/18/recruits-to-americas-armed-forces-are-not-what-they-used-to-be
Makes sense. A lot of the most poor and underprivileged people will have physical or mental attributes that would disqualify them from being recruited.
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If you're a family of four living on $73K, you may not be poor, but you also are going to need significant loans to pay for college and and you're not going to be able to count on much from the Bank of Mom and Dad.
I mean, we know the "middle class" has been hollowed out for decades now, and "middle class" jobs still leave you one medical issue from bankruptcy. I don't think we can correctly point out all the financial stressors on the "middle class" but then discard all that when it comes to the motivations a 17-year-old might have to join the Army.