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Arguably the state gets its money back via taxes. And we had mandatory military service or community service in Germany, but it was recently abolished. In the end, the youth were simply abused as free labor which also destryoed job chances for people (e.g. caretakers). But I'm aware that the American mindset is wildly different than ours when it comes to the state.