How Do You Define Morality?

Do you have to make everything about you?
Inventions and fine art have real value.
There are jobs far worse than taking care of people. Try cleaning out the bottom of a still full of one inch maggots and rotten mash. Risking your life while doing it, CO2 pockets (I have done this job and was paid well to do so).
What would be the point of doing that if you are going to get the same pay as doing something else, sitting on your ass watching a computer screen?
You keep saying it is a great idea, but have yet to SHOW it.

[9th Engineer]

It's not so much the jobs on the bottom end that would be vacant, there will always be people who don't want complicated work. It's the highly skilled jobs that take years of sacrifice to be able to do, the ones that are incredibly stressful and that force you to work longer hours with more responsibility that you will need to force people to do.

The difference is that you will be holding your best and brightest at the equivalent of knifepoint, demanding that they sacrifice more then their neighbors 'for the good of the country'.