The problem with being in PES C is that people think you Chao Keng or that you have the tendency to do that. The problem of ‘Chao Keng’ is actually so widespread that it transcends far beyond Physical Employment Status or deliberate choice of ‘Out of Course’ Status. When people are forced into something that doesn’t seem natural enough (ie. people around the world like them are not doing similar sort of things, or that it is not essential), there’s a need to create a market system that provides incentives to justify the stuff they are forced into. Deterrence achieves similar effects as incentives sometimes but more often, deterrence eventually results in greater inefficiency.
I have seen people who wants to Chiong but don’t get into Command School and therefore decided that they shall Chao Keng for the rest of the time since there’s no way they rise in ranks enough. There are others who are not interested in Chiong-ing, but only want to build up their bodies through physical exercise, end up in Command School and decide to get out of the course (by hook or by crook). Assigning work to people is only effective when there’s room for the person in concern to negotiate and come to an agreement. And since convincing is necessary to enhance effectiveness, the ‘control method’ (ie. dictating what people should do) is very inefficient. On the other hand, if there’s a free market means where people apply to their desired place and get interviewed to see if they qualify (and with special advice on how they can qualify if they have not), things would be so much better.
There’s definitely scope in studying the creation of such market system that blends command and freedom in ways that maximizes welfare beyond command and scale chaos way below total freedom and this is exactly the system that the military needs for all their affairs. People don’t Chao Keng because they are interested in lazing around. People want to be useful in ways they deem themselves would be. If their value is to be judge by someone and this someone uses that judged value to dictate the life of the person, the person would have no choice but to choose to live up to that value judged, whether it is a matter of fact or not.
