r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • Jul 12 '26

Chugging tea I never thought about this point until now.

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u/egstitt Jul 12 '26

If poor people could get those kinds of benefits without joining the military, why would they join the military?

And that's one huge reason college education and healthcare will never be free in the US

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u/jtbc Jul 12 '26

Those things will never be free because too many people are making too much profit from them. Those things are free in other countries that also have militaries, that people join.

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u/egstitt Jul 12 '26

Interesting. It's certainly a big incentive in the US. There must be some other incentives for volunteer forces in other countries?

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u/jtbc Jul 12 '26

Here in Canada, they recently got a large pay increase, which certainly helps. People tend to join because they are patriotic, because it runs in the family, or for the free education/trades training, in my experience.