The way I imagined it, you would get a wage for your service and service would be customizable to account for any disability, including severe intellectual-disability.
It’s a beautiful thought but at this point in time it would be used as a tool to exclude more than anything. So long as it is a voluntary service there would be a system in place to suppress certain groups.
No I agree it absolutely would NOT work any time near this generation. It’s not happening in our lifetimes, and if it does…that’s probably bad. But conceptually, it is feasible…assuming like 50 other variables we are currently missing.
Iirc, in the book, the point was that it was hazardous service - there was a real risk of loss of life or limb, which they underlined at every opportunity (remember the recruiter’s obviously prosthetic hand? He had one that blended in much better!) Otherwise, like dick_fineman said, customized to your abilities and you’re provided for. The idea was to filter out the self-serving sort.
But yeah, the problem becomes who gets to assign which duty - it becomes very easy to assign some people more hazardous positions depending on how “correct” their thinking is. Or more subtle things, like cultural fit, or education level.
Yeah. That just ends in the poor not having the ability to vote because they can’t make time for that contribution.
Reminder that when you pay money toward the government in taxes you are working to support it in proxy.
The way I imagined it, you would get a wage for your service and service would be customizable to account for any disability, including severe intellectual-disability.
It’s a beautiful thought but at this point in time it would be used as a tool to exclude more than anything. So long as it is a voluntary service there would be a system in place to suppress certain groups.
No I agree it absolutely would NOT work any time near this generation. It’s not happening in our lifetimes, and if it does…that’s probably bad. But conceptually, it is feasible…assuming like 50 other variables we are currently missing.
Iirc, in the book, the point was that it was hazardous service - there was a real risk of loss of life or limb, which they underlined at every opportunity (remember the recruiter’s obviously prosthetic hand? He had one that blended in much better!) Otherwise, like dick_fineman said, customized to your abilities and you’re provided for. The idea was to filter out the self-serving sort.
But yeah, the problem becomes who gets to assign which duty - it becomes very easy to assign some people more hazardous positions depending on how “correct” their thinking is. Or more subtle things, like cultural fit, or education level.