Apart from the basically good idea why should the youth accept a "mandatory volunteer service" after already carrying the burden of a socially and ecologically destroyed world? Without a massive mandatory volunteering of the rich by giving up their wealth for the common good and stop running a species-destructive economic ideology their is no way to start a wave of overcoming selfishness. The youth was already to "mandatory volunteer" in the survival.
Perhaps. But maybe the joint experience of voluntary work will create a shared language of social commitment by which the long term problems can be solved. Maybe it's just a romantic fantasy, but I think this kind of solidarity can prove vital for refreshing and sharpening social priorities and commitments. That's not to say that we shouldn't expect an equal commitment from elites, whether of wealth or power.
Apart from the basically good idea why should the youth accept a "mandatory volunteer service" after already carrying the burden of a socially and ecologically destroyed world? Without a massive mandatory volunteering of the rich by giving up their wealth for the common good and stop running a species-destructive economic ideology their is no way to start a wave of overcoming selfishness. The youth was already to "mandatory volunteer" in the survival.
Perhaps. But maybe the joint experience of voluntary work will create a shared language of social commitment by which the long term problems can be solved. Maybe it's just a romantic fantasy, but I think this kind of solidarity can prove vital for refreshing and sharpening social priorities and commitments. That's not to say that we shouldn't expect an equal commitment from elites, whether of wealth or power.