Recovery threatened by runaway student loan debt

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47. Right, and your situation defines everyone else's

In my entire youth and 12 years of schooling I heard not a single word about the hideous burden of student loans. Instead, I heard the constant drumbeat of "you absolutely have to get a four year degree if you want to have any sort of life at all." That may not be the truth of reality, but it's exactly the message foisted on countless high school sophomores and juniors. Blame the slogan chanters who feed this line of bullshit to the students and who thereby steer them into decades of debt.

So you think an 18-year-old who has just been through 12 years of schooling and has done plenty of research papers shouldn't have to be bothered with finding the details of borrowing that much money?

How many banks will give car loans to 18-year-olds with no jobs? How many mortgages? How many places will let that 18-year-old rent a car? If you think that the average 18-year-old is fully equipped to make life-altering economic decisions, then I'll need you to provide the name of the 18-year-old who does your taxes and manages your portfolio for you.

Wall Street experts with advanced degrees in accounting have fucked up in their investments and investments made on behalf of others, so if you're content to lay this trillion-dollar inescapable loan burden at the feet of the 18-year-old who--in your assessment--was too lazy to anticipate worldwide economic phenomena 20 years in advance, then more power to you.

Again, you're being naive.


Here: try something else: go back to the time when I was in college and try Googling Google, and tell me how many hits you get.



As is typical of the victim-blamers, you extrapolate from your own atypical conditions and deride anyone who didn't likewise enjoy the same set of circumstances that allowed you to prosper. Apparently you've got yours, jack, and to hell with the rest.