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      Yeah, that’s actually the least dumb one after a stable job. Everyone wants money, status and love. Even pride in your nation can be cringe, depending on how justified that pride actually is.

      Of course, women are not objects, so I’m unclear how they would pull handing them out off… It’s going to be a robot RealDoll thing, isn’t it?

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        Free healthcare and commissary access already causes marriages. A defined length contract wouldn’t be the worst thing in human history. But I’m not sure it’s up to modern ethical standards.

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          If you can’t leave early, yeah it wouldn’t be. If you can I don’t really see what that adds.

          Arguably legal marriages that are hard and expensive to leave are anachronistic themselves.

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            Oh gosh I wasn’t thinking of an enlistment. I was thinking about a normal job contract.

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        They could probably get girls signing up if they posted ads saying that they’re looking for stay at home girlfriends/boipussy for servicemen. Lots of states with no easy way to escape have desperate people unfortunately.

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          Yeah, but you can already dependa without government help. I guess just a sugardaddy-style dating site run by the DoD, then?

        • I disagree.

          It doesn’t really matter whether you have a Janitor available every day or just one day every week.

          But you will really notice if you have a surgeon available every day or just one day of the week.

          Please note that I explicitly don’t have the opinion that janitors aren’t important. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t exist and noone would pay for them.

          But saying that they are just as important as a surgeon just simply isn’t true.

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            But saying that they are just as important as a surgeon just simply isn’t true.

            Yeah, but I never said that. I said “janitors are just as important as nurses and software engineers” because “all labor has value”

            To be clear, I do agree that not all jobs are strictly equal in value. But lets shift our perspective a little: is the life of a CEO worth more than the janitor? I don’t think so. And yet the janitor often trades more of his life for far less pay. I think the time the janitor is sacrificing is just as precious to him as the CEO’s time is to the CEO.

            The main point I would argue is that anyone sacrificing the best hours of the best years of their life deserves a living wage and basic respect / dignity.

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          I don’t disagree, but hoo boy so do most human beings - especially in the modern West where we have a ghost story called meritocracy. Your example tells me you see it too, so I’ll skip the awkward attempt at nailing it down with a definition.

          Actually, I do disagree a bit. I wish people took me seriously IRL. I don’t need anything more than that though.

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        Even pride in your nation can be cringe, depending on how justified that pride actually is.

        As a German who was raised long after WW2 let me just say that pretty much all pride in your nation is pretty cringe, no matter how justified. The one exception would be maybe if you had a major part in improving your nation personally.

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          Hmm. Should I be proud my nation accepts more immigrants than anybody else? If we stopped, I’d stop being proud, so the way I’ve thought of it that doesn’t make me a nationalist. I certainly don’t want to be a nationalist.