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WizardofSoda
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This is something I've been arguing for doing. Russia is lately recruiting soldiers from poor areas of Russia - aka most of Russia outside of Moscow, at 10 times the local salary levels in those areas. Which people in these shit poor places make like $5,000 USD a year. So the military is offering $50,000 a year to soldiers who sign up. This is great to me, as then a soldier even if he is 20 years old putting his life on the line, makes 10 times some wage cuck careerist.
In socialism the idea is everyone sacrifices for the greater good by each individual doing what is right for 'society'. Of course if Russia should have learned anything in the last century, that idea doesn't work. When it doesn't work the socialist then turns to using force everywhere, making people do things with violence. Which creates the dystopias everyone wants to leave.
The socialists also didn't like this idea of paying some jobs more, because of equality. And the jealous government management didn't want to see 20 year olds making like 5 times what they make themselves.
For us capitalists none of this is a problem. The market determines how much people should make for different positions. Including within an organization, like a guy driving an ammo truck is presumably at less risk than a frontline army soldier.
The market figures out what you should pay people. Because if you need 100,000 more soldiers, then the salaries can keep increasing until you fill the positions. This cost also forces a rationalization of objectives for a country. The economic rationalization that free markets bring. If a country can't afford the higher salaries for the number of soldiers needed to achieve an objective - well then give up on the objective its not worth it. You can see how this also is very democratizing in power.
The army can also think of strategies and tactics that cause less loss of life, so its not just the salary side that can be modified.
What about when a nation is under attack. Thing is people are much more willing to volunteer to fight to defend their country. So the salaries needed would be less.
In socialism the idea is everyone sacrifices for the greater good by each individual doing what is right for 'society'. Of course if Russia should have learned anything in the last century, that idea doesn't work. When it doesn't work the socialist then turns to using force everywhere, making people do things with violence. Which creates the dystopias everyone wants to leave.
The socialists also didn't like this idea of paying some jobs more, because of equality. And the jealous government management didn't want to see 20 year olds making like 5 times what they make themselves.
For us capitalists none of this is a problem. The market determines how much people should make for different positions. Including within an organization, like a guy driving an ammo truck is presumably at less risk than a frontline army soldier.
The market figures out what you should pay people. Because if you need 100,000 more soldiers, then the salaries can keep increasing until you fill the positions. This cost also forces a rationalization of objectives for a country. The economic rationalization that free markets bring. If a country can't afford the higher salaries for the number of soldiers needed to achieve an objective - well then give up on the objective its not worth it. You can see how this also is very democratizing in power.
The army can also think of strategies and tactics that cause less loss of life, so its not just the salary side that can be modified.
What about when a nation is under attack. Thing is people are much more willing to volunteer to fight to defend their country. So the salaries needed would be less.