I really do not understand why there isn’t a concentrated effort to finally build an EU army. If we pooled our resources together, improved our equipment to minimize casualties through precision warfare, and strengthened our military deterrence, we would be much better off. This seems like a wasteful McDonald’s approach to warfare.
MistakePerfect8485 on
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>Carlo Masala, a professor for International Politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, said concerns about the economic impact of a return to some form of conscription were “overblown”.
>Even under a compulsory model, he said, he expected that no more than about 25,000 young people would be called up each year — far less than the more than 200,000 West German conscripts at the height of the cold war.
Doesn’t the EU have open borders? Would it really be that hard to attract people from Eastern Europe to fill the gap? It sounds like German businesses managed to survive in the past when there were even more conscripts so I don’t think that’s a huge deal.
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>The research, which was commissioned by the German finance ministry, warned that an obligatory model would carry high economic costs for the country, as well as taking a toll on individuals and their own financial prospects by delaying their entry into study or work.
>“Different people are good at different activities,” said Panu Poutvaara, one of the authors. “If you have conscription, which is not voluntary, it would force people who are not good at being in the military to serve in the military.”
>The Ifo Institute found that a well-paid voluntary model that persuaded 5 per cent of Germany’s annual cohort of 18-year-olds to sign up — about 39,000 people — would cost the government €1.5bn per year in salary payments.
>That would be more than double the cost of a compulsory conscription model of the same size, which it assumed would offer a lower wage. But it would be offset by a smaller hit to gross national income. The effect would be greater if the government wanted to attract more recruits.
That seems like a much bigger deal. ~~Slavery~~ Conscription isn’t efficient, setting aside questions of justice.
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lol, worker shortage
Currently the unemployment rate in Germany is the highest it has been in in 10 years and it doesn’t look like it is getting any better. Sitting at 6.2 at the moment.
thespanishgerman on
I wonder how much a russian attack would impact the economy
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I really do not understand why there isn’t a concentrated effort to finally build an EU army. If we pooled our resources together, improved our equipment to minimize casualties through precision warfare, and strengthened our military deterrence, we would be much better off. This seems like a wasteful McDonald’s approach to warfare.
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>Carlo Masala, a professor for International Politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, said concerns about the economic impact of a return to some form of conscription were “overblown”.
>Even under a compulsory model, he said, he expected that no more than about 25,000 young people would be called up each year — far less than the more than 200,000 West German conscripts at the height of the cold war.
Doesn’t the EU have open borders? Would it really be that hard to attract people from Eastern Europe to fill the gap? It sounds like German businesses managed to survive in the past when there were even more conscripts so I don’t think that’s a huge deal.
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>The research, which was commissioned by the German finance ministry, warned that an obligatory model would carry high economic costs for the country, as well as taking a toll on individuals and their own financial prospects by delaying their entry into study or work.
>“Different people are good at different activities,” said Panu Poutvaara, one of the authors. “If you have conscription, which is not voluntary, it would force people who are not good at being in the military to serve in the military.”
>The Ifo Institute found that a well-paid voluntary model that persuaded 5 per cent of Germany’s annual cohort of 18-year-olds to sign up — about 39,000 people — would cost the government €1.5bn per year in salary payments.
>That would be more than double the cost of a compulsory conscription model of the same size, which it assumed would offer a lower wage. But it would be offset by a smaller hit to gross national income. The effect would be greater if the government wanted to attract more recruits.
That seems like a much bigger deal. ~~Slavery~~ Conscription isn’t efficient, setting aside questions of justice.
lol, worker shortage
Currently the unemployment rate in Germany is the highest it has been in in 10 years and it doesn’t look like it is getting any better. Sitting at 6.2 at the moment.
I wonder how much a russian attack would impact the economy