• @[email protected]
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    118 months ago

    Volunteers pay for themselves, that’s the core principle of volunteering. If you get paid for it it’s a very normal job.

    They don’t get anything right over there, don’t they.

    • @[email protected]
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      148 months ago

      Volunteer troops usually are contrasted to conscripts not to professionals. The United States for example fields an all volunteer professional military ever since the end of the Vietnam war. Unpaid troops are usually militias, and they can be contrasted to professional troops. That said militias often provide stipends or some form of compensation.

    • danhakimi
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      108 months ago

      well, it’s not incoherent to give a volunteer supplies, or even a basic stipend to cover supplies… If the 200,000 she mentioned was rubles, that’s not even $2,200, that’s not a soldier’s pay, that’s a small stipend—especially if they don’t give you a uniform or even fucking feed you.

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        88 months ago

        This feels so 1700s. Like the revolutionary war where the volunteers just kind of showed up with whatever they had.

        • danhakimi
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          58 months ago

          This feels so 1700s. Like the revolutionary war where the volunteers just kind of showed up with whatever they had.

          well… uh, they weren’t all volunteers.

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        58 months ago

        In this context, volunteer means signed up voluntarily, rather than drafted. They’re still paid.