This article has a strong slant. If we can look past that, we should consider the claim: everyone having skin in the game is more democratic and leads to a better aligned government. Perhaps this would lead to more peace.
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Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft
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#22Wars used to be paid for by raising taxes. Now we have no idea how much they cost. How many years in a row has the Pentagon failed it's audit? How many years (decades?) was the Iraq war funded through annual (unbudgeted) emergency measures? How many trillions in promised healthcare does America owe its veterans? If the President had to make the case that taking on Iran would cost each American around $1000 on top of…
> Wars used to be paid for by raising taxes in the long term maybe, in the short term its mass debt of trillions
Inflation sort of is a tax, on those who do not hold appreciating assets. I.e. mostly people on the poorer side.
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#23This article has a strong slant. If we can look past that, we should consider the claim: everyone having skin in the game is more democratic and leads to a better aligned government. Perhaps this would lead to more peace.
Agree - the key is that everyone MUST include people in power.
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#24This article has a strong slant. If we can look past that, we should consider the claim: everyone having skin in the game is more democratic and leads to a better aligned government. Perhaps this would lead to more peace.
"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die"
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#25This article has a strong slant. If we can look past that, we should consider the claim: everyone having skin in the game is more democratic and leads to a better aligned government. Perhaps this would lead to more peace.
But everyone won’t have skin in the game. We’ve played this game before. The uber wealthy and politically connected kids will either get outright deferments, or cushy positions that never have them sniffing any danger beyond carpal tunnel.
It’s no different than the republicans that are violently against abortion and then you find out they’ve funded multiple for their mistresses. They’re perfectly fine with a law banning it because they know it will never apply to them.
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#26This article has a strong slant. If we can look past that, we should consider the claim: everyone having skin in the game is more democratic and leads to a better aligned government. Perhaps this would lead to more peace.
Agree - the key is that everyone MUST include people in power.
It's not how conscription is ever implemented in practice.
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#27This article has a strong slant. If we can look past that, we should consider the claim: everyone having skin in the game is more democratic and leads to a better aligned government. Perhaps this would lead to more peace.
"Perhaps" you say even though humanity hasn't had a long history of conscription and it has never created peace.
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#28This article has a strong slant. If we can look past that, we should consider the claim: everyone having skin in the game is more democratic and leads to a better aligned government. Perhaps this would lead to more peace.
But everyone won’t have skin in the game. We’ve played this game before. The uber wealthy and politically connected kids will either get outright deferments, or cushy positions that never have them sniffing any danger beyond carpal tunnel. It’s no different than the republicans that are violently against abortion and then you find out they’ve funded multiple for their mistresses. They’re perfectly fine with a law ban…
They certainly don't have skin in the game now, either!
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#30> Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible I would agree with that, but its debt is to the people of that country, not their current government. But instead, Palantir conspires to surveil and repress those people at the bidding of an elite, anti-democratic minority. And would the leaders of Palantir still argue it had a moral debt to serve the government if it was a left-wing one, e…
Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country, and the country now has to serve.
What?