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>Its laughable because the government expects people to work for free.
You're really stuck on the idea that green-backs are the only way someone can be compensated.
>where its members were not paid for more than 2 months
I see what you're insinuating, but it's nonsensical. When the economy collapses, pay is going to be worthless paper cloth, at which point it won't matter how long you've worked without pay, so long as your basic needs are being met. Motivation at that point becomes retaining a means of defense, nourishment, and shelter.
>stocks of food were rationed
Military personnel not riding a desk have more combined experience than any one group in CONUS on what it's like to live on rationed food and when the economy collapses that ration food is going to be one of the only sources of readily available food provided in exchange for manpower.
>communication outside of CoC (talking to family as an example) was made artificially difficult to the point that happened maybe once every three months?
In a situation where the economy has collapsed, communication outside of CoG is going to be non-existent, with minimal exception to those with access to amateur radio. As it stands, personnel deployed OCONUS have limited contact with family.
>The closest thing would be the crews on boomers, but even their families get a paycheck, health insurance and other benefits.
Active Duty families would still see those benefits, why do you think the military maintains it's own facilities, with it's own support infrastructure? And do you really think health insurance is going to be that big of concern in a situation involving economic collapse?
>Oh I understand that perfectly. Just tell the brass at the Pentagon that.
The brass in the Pentagon are the people with the means to play robber-baron, as they have their hordes place your head on a pike.
>That's what ACW2 would be. Politics is largely ethnic in this country.
Only in the pipedreams of /pol/lacks would it be some kind of racial cleansing on the level of Yugoslavia. Politics in this country is largely economic.
>Nuclear exchange is foreign threat.
The origin of the threat is moot.
>And I doubt the USG is prepared for an actual nuclear war either.
You're free to intellectually invest in whatever you'd like.
>CoC might be maintained, but it'll be like Hitler in his bunker. Commanding phantom armies that don't exist anymore.
Which is the exact opposite of what CoG is…
>Domestic disturbance on ACW2 scales are a whole different animal.
On the tactical level, yes. We're talking CoG, not a micro-level situation of Sgt. Shitstain dealing with hordes of starving rioters.
>I'm assuming getting paid and not losing your life savings is a part of the course.
Pay and a lifesaving that would be worthless…
>They will see the collapse as the fault of whoever doesn't pay them or give them basic needs. FDIC can't ensure everyone's deposits, and most people will have their life savings wiped out, their checking accounts worthless (if the banks aren't on permanent holiday) and their home values obliterated. People are going to be upset at every faction, because every faction had a role in destroying their society. The economy touches everyone. There is no neutral party.
Except hunger and vulnerability will dictate which faction they are upset with the least, if that faction is providing some level of assistance.
>That can all be obtained independently of DC.
Only if you do it yourself, before things fall apart.
>If the US treasury doesn't pay its people, somebody else will
Pay them in what? To purchase what? If the economy has collapsed, money has no value and expendable income is pointless.
>they'll do whatever the fuck they want.
Of course they can, they can go AWOL, taking their family to leave the relative safety of of the base their stationed on.
and livestock…yeah, ok.