At the moment I'm here in Bolivia, in the meanwhile I hate this place and the people who act so fucked up. I was born in Germany (which I hate also, but out of different reasons). I lived in Brasil, France, Switzerland, and Spain.
I think I really can understand your desperation. Here the murder rate is I think not so high. People think it is very dangerous here, my opinion was before it's not. Today I think, yes it is dangerous, but not because of some "criminals", but of the ignorance and stupidity of the people here. They think because they have now a car they have everywhere preferences and pedestrians need to jump out of the way because the street is theirs now. At the same time, the owners or renters think the sidewalk is their extended property. So they put all kinds of shit on the footway and block it with bags of garbage, vendor table, tents, parking cars, etc.
Really here is everywhere shit, I mean real shit and garbage on the streets, people pee everywhere outside, everywhere free-running starving dogs, street cats, homeless people living next to or even in this all. People preparing, selling and serving food next to shit and garbage. This all is only an excerpt. I don't know, sometimes I'm I will write about these things here, other times, when I'm about to, I think I have already too many open wars in this world. Here is also the chill effect, because people go here because of "offense" to jail because of telling the truth about government criminal organization, about their president/dictator. My wife dislikes to take the risk, and probably she is right.
I don't want to compare it, because I think it is not comparable. While I lived in 2010 in Bolivia, it was better, while there were almost no faggots (police) and the people disrespected them. Now they are so in their progress trip that they need to respect the faggots and the military and for that, it is everything fine what the common asshole does and when you fight back he will cry and search for a faggot to defend him. My wife is afraid when I go out alone because I do not retread, and I have almost every day some beef in these fucking streets with people who almost kill you by car. I now used to walk with my key in the had, I the pass to close the will scratch their car, and when they stop then and come out of the car they will regret to ever be born in the first place. People so disrespectful and it makes me so angry, often I think in a general genocide, but that is the 95% I think, and it seems to me four things make them be a motherfucker. Fear, belief (doesn't matter if in which religion or church), the belief in government and tradition. And the last but not least the permanent and common abuse on their children (not necessarily sexual, but also very common). And I also have no answer, the answer for me is leaving what I can't stand because it's not worth to fight for people not fighting for themselves. My life goes to the end phase, and my priority is my daughter living better in this fucked up and at the same time a nice world. I'm not bound to any country or place, mostly I get tired of every place within 3 months - and mostly because of the people.
But back to the topic. Let's think about the options. Let's think one second outside my boundaries. I think I don't need to state it here that I hate government, military, and faggots (police). So let's think, like you said, after school, no job then mandatory military. Paid or unpaid?
Paid, who will pay it, the military is not something productive and only profitable while killing or threatening others (this happens already without military in Capetown, right?), so we could let them fight against some neighbor country to get some more resources. Not a nice way but an economic possibility, you can easily employ the tactics of the US, okay, not so easy because of missing resources. You could fight in the own country and seize things, let say the war against drugs or something similar, or declare certain things as illegal and then combat and seize. Okay, no more murder. We could finance it by raising taxes because the military will protect the people. Really? I was 3 months in the military before the expulsed me, and I can tell you nobody cares about that, but anyway, let's think further, and let's think they really want to protect the people. Now we raise taxes, and the have to be paid by the poor and the lower till upper middle class, because no person with money will simply let them get stolen by government. Of course we will say, the rich have to pay it, and the dumb sheeps will scream: yeah the rich should pay it and ending up paying it with the money they have not to eat. Now they get frustrated and desperate. Crime rate will raise and also shift to legal crimes committed by the military, government, and faggots. Bad outcome.
Unpaid. Instead of supporting their family, their family will become the military, and believe me they will have stupid ideas and a lot really don't like to be forced, and some will fight back against the oppression. (Sorry to make it here so short, I should continue to ending my book to change my own disaster here).
Starting an economy, to feed more people, not only with food but also with knowledge and sense for there life. Start to create a "Taxi"-App with a web of trust. But some green outside the house instead more and more of hostile fence and locks and stuff. Investing you live for a change.
Simply let it behind you, go somewhere where you can enjoy your life without fear. But I can assure you, there is no perfect place, at least not in one I lived or was in my life.
Resignation and give up, live life in a flat way.
I'm really sorry to end it now so fast after writing first my testament :/ But I don't want to live anymore in this shithole of place where I live survive at the moment. Have a great day, but I come for me to the conclusion, the only hope that mankind has on this fucking earth, is our children. Listen more to them and supporting them in their voluntary actions. What I see is over and over again that fucked up kids produced by fucked-up parents and surroundings. So it is very heartbreaking for me, that my daughter can notice all my anger and hate, so I MUST go back to the beach life as a tourist, this cools me really down. And for a more global solution open learning houses (I should really start with that instead of procrastinating it even further to when I have some serious money).
Have a great evening and a calm night!
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