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I’ve been arguing for over a decade that mandatory civil service would make America stronger. The typical response was that it would just be an obstacle between people and their goals…or that it’s uNConStITutioNaL and that we’d rather have violent tribalwarfare between the purple hair baristas and the incels. Now that widespread job loss driven by AI looms, the idea has become a lot more palatable. Go check out the argument @PirateWires. Come at me, bro.

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