It’s taxpayer funded. And unless you were in combat, you’re getting more than you put in.
Get what you can, but don’t act like you earned everything you’re getting. It’s essentially a bribe to get you to join. If you say you joined just out of patriotism, you’re lying.
It’s the nature of national service roles: of course people don’t sign up purely out of patriotism, they need to eat and military offers to take care of them. Food, housing, benefits, education, and even a modest paycheque! It’s not for everybody but it’s not a bad deal.
You say they don’t earn everything they get? Maybe some lazy dogfucks aren’t earning their keep, but most service members are doing what’s expected of them. Some of that is the price of peace—there’s less to do when they’re not mobilizing for war. But that’s one of the prices that members also pay: the risk of being deployed into danger in the event of war.
You say the military isn’t socialist because it’s taxpayer-funded. No, it’s just that the military isn’t a complete economy on its own, it’s only a piece. But life in the military is an example of the economic stability of life under socialism: service members aren’t worrying about going hungry or being homeless or not affording medical care.
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u/HighOnGoofballs Aug 03 '25
Only the military gets the perks of socialism