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  • Norway did it in 2015, and it seems to have been a success.

    There has been surprisingly little debate about it here in Denmark. I haven’t heard a single argument against it.

    It should be noted that the draft is for training only, and that it’s possible for pacifists to opt out of the military training by doing work for other institutions.

    Personally I think it might be a great help for modernizing the military, because they’ll need to rethink the old “one size fits all” procedures.









  • bstix@feddit.dktoMemes@sopuli.xyzI'm ready for it
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    18 days ago

    Retirement age was recently raised to 70 in Denmark, but I’m honestly not even that pissed off about it, because I think it might finally be the key for people to understand and act upon something that is much more important:

    Retirement is not and has never been the carrot on a stick that excuses wasting most of your life on working.

    There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for those who choose to endure 50 years of wage slavery. The cake is a lie, and if you didn’t get it before, you’ll surely get it now that the promised retirement is getting pushed further and further away. Fuck retirement. You’ll likely never get to it, so you need to live now.

    You need to make your life worthwhile through the entirety of it. If that life includes paid work, you need to make paid work worthwhile.

    Sure, it’s a lot of work in itself to make the conditions for your paid work better, but we have to start demanding just that and it’s really easy to get started: Join a union.