- it is in existence for many decades, multiple generations
- culture as a whole is integrated with the military via conscription, then many related employment opportunities later in life
- military not some sort of symbolic peacetime standby thing, but a way where majority of citizens are indoctrinated and jumped in as children or very young adults.
- israel has enjoyed almost a century of careful special treatment despite their crimes and atrocities being widely known since day dot
- immense internal/external propaganda force
- fake it til you make it – the fascist method of reality. rather than discovering truth, as with science, you create it. israel being a prime example.
It makes sense if you consider that low income people are more likely to be in situations that are disqualifying or making it difficult to join the armed forces. For example to be tangled up in legal issues, non citizens, lower literacy/education, health inequalities.
E.g. https://www.goarmy.com/how-to-join/requirements:
All that means is that the person didn’t have as good health care as a child.
Also that page is saying a highschool diploma is required and there is a limited number of spaces for people who have GEDs instead of regular diplomas.
So on the population level, lots of low income people will be filtered out and directed away on all these basis.