to be fair vietnam vets were pretty much all drafts...

i feel like nam would have gone better with artillery, maybe if they kept a battleship around as mobile artillery

They couldn't have won with china supporting the north their best hope was a korea type situation

wasnt nam more of a "trying to make an example" than a win?

That's what they liked to tell everyone after they got their ass handed too them

either way they failed tho
i would say trying to make an example of someone and getting your ass kicked is worse than just picking a fight and fucking up

It was kind of a statement of opposition with the intent of making sustained war futile

actually a us battleship could only fire 7.8% inland, i did the math

There were relatively few foot soldiers

That's what the whole firebombing thing was about

if you think the minimum wage should be a living wage you are a delusionally puerile cretin
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minimum wage shouldn't exist

it just keeps anyone not productive to make a minimum wage, entirely unable to work

Minimum wage is, at this point the only way we can have a semblance of a workforce. This is mainly due decades of corporate fuckery. At this point we shouldn’t be asking why it exists, but how it exists.

minimum wage prevents anyone even slightly disabled from getting a job of any kind

Do you have a citation for that?

i may've exaggerated slightly

but idk, the government recognizes it, there are exceptions to minimum wage for certain disabilities

It destroys jobs across the board

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Minimum wage should not be able to support a family. all that does is lessen the incentive for people to get higher education. That's a big No-No in my books imo

It generally doesn't. I don't even think $15 per hour can reasonably support a family if it's only one person earning the wage. Maybe if you're barely supporting the family with basic necessities.

Although it really varies based on where you are, and what your standard of living is.

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Minimum wage is a symptom of the current problem with economics

That is the very temporary view of the end all be all of economic strife

Through this you get economic bubbles and runaway inflation

You also get less skilled labor positions (though this is through other over corrective measures related to this)

Because of this you get a populace who can’t sustain a family because there are no jobs around that can

So what do politicians do?

Well they do what they always do they over correct

So they create minimum wage which isn’t inherently bad in a functioning and sustainable economy

But as everyone knows we don’t have a sustainable economy
In fact it is very very brittle

Also we’ll see very much the same thing as temp work gets cut out by AI

Also on the subject of temp work (don’t quote me on this) but about 94% of jobs being created today is of the temp/ contractor variant

So it’s not hard to see why minimum wage exists

Tbh all things considered it would’ve been better to fix all those other things first rather than jump to minimum wage
But it’s not the worst thing they could’ve done

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