Roughly 11-12% of the working age population is veterans (Using google for the rough figures and math)
It is far more fruitful to game the disability system than to pursue an actual productive career.
- Anecdote: 2 personal fitness instructors with 100% disability. That is $3000 non-taxable dollars a month. For life.
-- It is far more fruitful to game a bureaucratic machine than to put your mind and imagination towards fruitful work
~ This is not the same as saying "Throw them out in the street and let God sort 'em out". This is saying that a great and fruitful strategy for future vets is to rape the VA's disability system
: Temporary observations on dynamics that could be gamed to sustainability and ruin by over 10% of the possible working population
~ This is not a mere case of the ruin of commons. This is (at least) partially a manipulation by war planners to grossly underestimate the costs of constant war and constant operations. The costs of the VA are either not calculated in or are grossly distorted/underestimated by planners. It is not an organization for vets. It is an organization to cover the DoD's ass by bribing the living casualties of bureaucratic malfeasance and the normal living casualties in even the most competently executed wars.
It is far more fruitful to game the disability system than to pursue an actual productive career. - Anecdote: 2 personal fitness instructors with 100% disability. That is $3000 non-taxable dollars a month. For life. -- It is far more fruitful to game a bureaucratic machine than to put your mind and imagination towards fruitful work ~ This is not the same as saying "Throw them out in the street and let God sort 'em out". This is saying that a great and fruitful strategy for future vets is to rape the VA's disability system
: Temporary observations on dynamics that could be gamed to sustainability and ruin by over 10% of the possible working population ~ This is not a mere case of the ruin of commons. This is (at least) partially a manipulation by war planners to grossly underestimate the costs of constant war and constant operations. The costs of the VA are either not calculated in or are grossly distorted/underestimated by planners. It is not an organization for vets. It is an organization to cover the DoD's ass by bribing the living casualties of bureaucratic malfeasance and the normal living casualties in even the most competently executed wars.