Was it also sponsored by the “I want my kids to have a better life than me” crew who then complains about kids having it too easy these days?
I want them to have it better and easier. But an easier life, not just an easy childhood that doesn’t prepare them for their inevitable crushing adulthood.
better and easy are not the same thing
You man as in expensive and more difficult aren’t the same thing?
my nephews have a better life than me. but their lives are way harder and stressful than mine was. they have zero free time apart from holidays. they do nothing creative or exploratory, every minute of everyday is scheduled.
their college educations are paid for. mine wasn’t. but they will work way harder to achieve less. but they eat way better food/healthcare, have better clothes, have better homes, etc than I ever did.
of course they are growing up this way and thus they don’t and never will appreciate how good they have it. they already are razor focused on the fact that someone else has it better than them and how unfair it is they aren’t traveling to europe for family vacations like their friends are.
False equivalent. People do not choose to have cancer, but some people chose poorly and took out loans they could not afford; that is on them.
What a horrible, uninformed and ignorant hot take.
If you find a cure for your student loans that doesn’t involve spending from the common pool of tax money, that’s great. I want it to be easy for you to pay off your loans. I just don’t want to contribute my money towards that end.
Cause it not like the loans are predatory or anything. Cause its not like the prices keep going up cause the loans keep giving more and more.
Crazy how the rest of the developed nations can send thier young adults to school for basically free but its too hard for the US.
Cause it not like the loans are predatory or anything.
I’ve met people who foolishly took out six-digit loans to go to college and I agree that those loans ought to have been denied to them, but most people I know went to relatively low-cost public universities or to the private universities that gave them generous need-based scholarships. My own family wasn’t poor by the time I went to college and my education at a prestigious private university cost a total of about $45,000 (in 2006) after the need-based scholarships that I got. Some of that was paid for by loans and I don’t feel that those loans were predatory.
Cause its not like the prices keep going up cause the loans keep giving more and more.
That’s an argument for the government to help college students less, not to help them more.
So because you know a couple people who maybe didnt make the best decisions, forget everybody else. How many students who take out those high loans go on to become something useful and needed by society. Cause the people I know that took out that much mostly went on the become doctor’s.
That’s an argument for the government to help college students less, not to help them more.
Yes cause the students have the power to set the prices. It’s the loan givers dealing with the universities that keep driving up prices. If the government was to step in and say we’re only paying this much the prices wouldn’t be so exorbitant. You know, like the other developed countries do.
Doctors borrow that much for medical school. Their undergrad degree doesn’t cost more than anyone else’s.
The government does step in and run state schools where it sets the prices, and its prices are reasonable. In this context, private universities are a luxury.
