How much of human free-loading and bullshit cycling is really crisis surge capacity in disguise?
We really have no way of knowing now that conscription and wartime production modes are antiquated patterns of labor deployment.
Conversation
Replying to
not sure if related, but I finally made my peace with the bullshitty nature of conscription in NS when somebody put it to me that it was really more of "idling the engine" for the overall system than to actually prepare 18yo boys for actual war
2
Replying to
Well technically, conscription is unbounded drafting for war. Time-bound mandatory service is more like an element of education system that has different roles in war/peace.
Replying to
Oh yeah. (Been up all night and brain is zzz). Agreed re: education.
1

