@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 8 months agoYoung Canadians are being priced out of home ownership and even parenthood. Why on earth would mandatory national service make them love their country more?www.thestar.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down17
arrow-up1231arrow-down1external-linkYoung Canadians are being priced out of home ownership and even parenthood. Why on earth would mandatory national service make them love their country more?www.thestar.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 8 months agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink27•8 months agoDoes the mandatory national service pay $30+/hour, with raises if you stay voluntarily after the mandatory period is finished? That might do it.
minus-square@NotMyOldRedditNamelink24•8 months ago$30/h today and still $30/h 20 years from now and they’ll wonder why people are upset again.
minus-squareRentlarlinkfedilink17•edit-28 months agoClassic “our model doesn’t work anymore for some reason”. How about instead of pay we try to “modernize” it with [insert buzzword]?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•8 months agoLet’s modernize it with AI that will get the kids interested.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•edit-28 months agoYeah, that was my first thought. If it was a guaranteed well-paying career like it used to be maybe it would change the mood in here. Otherwise, no, it’s just a way to have a less pathetic military.
Does the mandatory national service pay $30+/hour, with raises if you stay voluntarily after the mandatory period is finished? That might do it.
$30/h today and still $30/h 20 years from now and they’ll wonder why people are upset again.
Classic “our model doesn’t work anymore for some reason”. How about instead of pay we try to “modernize” it with [insert buzzword]?
Let’s modernize it with AI that will get the kids interested.
Yeah, that was my first thought. If it was a guaranteed well-paying career like it used to be maybe it would change the mood in here. Otherwise, no, it’s just a way to have a less pathetic military.
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