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It would be 1000x better to offer a job guarantee to everyone, not just kids, with various formal pathways for local environmental protection alongside other more normal work-related schemes (mentorships/internships/small business or co-op incubators).
Rather than actually trying to make various parts of society good, conservatives love ideas that force others to do menial work.
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I think national service is relatively popular in Switzerland and Sweden (although I can't be bothered to look up polls on it).
In the same way that university isn't all about lectures I think it probably could be a good thing for kids who've just left school - but classic Tories, instead of that let's do indentured servitude to punish young people a bit more