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I know it's pretty fun to do the espionage angle with this comment.

But is this really just evidence that a mandatory draft is actually good economic policy? Having a forced networking event where a bunch of similar skilled individual meet each other seems to be producing a ton of economic value for Israel.



This isn’t a one or the other thing. You’re just bringing up an unrelated point.


? But in the US, people get the same - if not better - economic value from universities, or working together at the same companies, or being in the same spaces, or meetups, etc.




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