Its not just the commissary. The entire way the military works is functional communism. Housing is assigned by rank, is available to anyone currently in contract, as well as healthcare and obviously, work. Pay is rated by rank and not by position, a Physician assistant gets the same rank pay as a Lt working command staff in any other unit. There is no capitalism in the DoD at all not even under their procurement systems.
I knew someone would point out “hazard pay”. It is not really common, but if youre gonna split hairs; what about BAQ/BAH?
The pay differential isnt any more significant than shift differentials. There is a difference between flight crew and ground crew in aviation and they get different hours and pay, but the base rate is absolutely the same by rank.
Honestly I would compare it to group project eugenics because of the strict processing and selection of who can join. Cant be disabled, have to have all your arms and legs, picky even about eyesight. They might be picking the poor but theyre also grabbing the healthiest of the poor.
I mean yeah, not that there are any wars that we should be fighting anyway, but it’d be really fucked up to drop a guy in a wheelchair into a war zone.
You can’t become a bus driver if you’re blind either.
Some jobs simply can’t be accommodated for, hopefully we one day can have technology progresses to that point, but this critique of the military seems off to me
Housing is assigned by rank, is available to anyone currently in contract
Not only that, but government owned housing is assigned not based on pay, rank, or whatever, but size of household. So an E-7 with no kids gets a 2 bedroom and an E-3 with three kids gets a four bedroom (depending on age/gender of the kids). So according to need.
Dawg, I dont know man….
To each according to their needs is kinda hard to subscribe to before the definition of a post-scarcity society, considering we all have the same needs generally speaking.
To use Stalinist USSR as an example work was assigned according to ability, and in some cases who you were or who you knew. Someone had to work the party lines and admin to assign this stuff based on “something”
in communism, ‘class is abolished. The ability to earn more than other workers is almost nonexistent.’ Therefore i’d argue that a rank or housing and pay by rank, are very counterproductive.
Stalinist just means authoritarian to me. There was no equality
Its not just the commissary. The entire way the military works is functional communism. Housing is assigned by rank, is available to anyone currently in contract, as well as healthcare and obviously, work. Pay is rated by rank and not by position, a Physician assistant gets the same rank pay as a Lt working command staff in any other unit. There is no capitalism in the DoD at all not even under their procurement systems.
Base pay may be the same, but there are several incentive pays available for various duties. Flight pay, sea pay, jump pay, hazardous duty pay, etc.
I knew someone would point out “hazard pay”. It is not really common, but if youre gonna split hairs; what about BAQ/BAH? The pay differential isnt any more significant than shift differentials. There is a difference between flight crew and ground crew in aviation and they get different hours and pay, but the base rate is absolutely the same by rank.
I was agreeing with you, just pointing out that there is some variation depending on the duties assigned.
No disagreement implied! I was attempting to ignore the smaller rules to avoid confusion, but I knew someone would point it out. Much love, brother!
No worries man. Text can be hard to interpret tone sometimes. Right back at you friend.
lol… yeah that 225 dollars…
Uhh - that would be a ‘bourgeois right’, going Marx’s ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’. Very much the opposite intended outcome.
Honestly I would compare it to group project eugenics because of the strict processing and selection of who can join. Cant be disabled, have to have all your arms and legs, picky even about eyesight. They might be picking the poor but theyre also grabbing the healthiest of the poor.
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I mean yeah, not that there are any wars that we should be fighting anyway, but it’d be really fucked up to drop a guy in a wheelchair into a war zone.
You can’t become a bus driver if you’re blind either.
Some jobs simply can’t be accommodated for, hopefully we one day can have technology progresses to that point, but this critique of the military seems off to me
Not only that, but government owned housing is assigned not based on pay, rank, or whatever, but size of household. So an E-7 with no kids gets a 2 bedroom and an E-3 with three kids gets a four bedroom (depending on age/gender of the kids). So according to need.
Is there really a rank in communism? Who decides the details of a rank?
Dawg, I dont know man…. To each according to their needs is kinda hard to subscribe to before the definition of a post-scarcity society, considering we all have the same needs generally speaking. To use Stalinist USSR as an example work was assigned according to ability, and in some cases who you were or who you knew. Someone had to work the party lines and admin to assign this stuff based on “something”
Edit: i know this example isnt real communism
in communism, ‘class is abolished. The ability to earn more than other workers is almost nonexistent.’ Therefore i’d argue that a rank or housing and pay by rank, are very counterproductive.
Stalinist just means authoritarian to me. There was no equality