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Rishi Sunak announcing national service plans (lemmy.world)
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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I mean, you guys made it into a literal lottery.

Exactly! Those people were drafted and sent to fight an unpopular war in a country that most of them didn't even know existed until then. The rich were able to dodge it by paying off the right people and others had to leave as political refugees. I think that a lot of Americans learned to fear mandatory government service due that policy.

Effectively it's slave labour for the poor and pay so you don't need to do it for the rich.

The story of human society continues as normal.