Go to college to get a job. Get a job to pay for college.

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I don't know what is more pathetic: the financial mess left to us by the Boomers, or the total evasion of personal responsibility by the Millennials in this thread.

Clearly people think they are smart enough to warrant university, but god forbid treating them as smart enough to think through a loan. That shit is on you, nobody else. Just because you behaved like a brainless conformist, simply doing what you're told, doesn't excuse your very real responsibility for signing those papers.

Hell, I dropped out after a year, because I realized I'd never find work with a social science degree. I'm not exceptional. I'm not brilliant. And yet I had the foresight to avoid tens of thousands of dollars in debt, and lo and behold, I am in drastically better financial conditions that almost everyone I know.

On a policy level, postsecondary education ought to be funded 100% by the government. In order to make good on our transition to the knowledge economy, we need to double down on education, not let it suck an entire generation down. All that said, it's sickening to see grown adults complaining about the loans they took out as grown adults. Cry more, pussies.

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It's called political economy. Study it some time. The constraints of the system constrain individual choices and decisions. Yes, you as a person can make better or worse decisions, but that doesn't change the overall logic. Frankly, I'm not into the boomer baiting because it distracts from the larger structural issues which include the financialization of the economy and greater debt among middle and working classes.

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