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Are you able to do arithmetic?

Going for a college drop is analogous to the lottery, because losers will end up further behind those that skipped the expensive degree and lost money to inflation.

I think a four digit loan is already on the high end when one also needs to get a car, find a place to live and to rent, with no savings. You arguing that it is consistently much h…

Why keep calling these people children past the age of twelve? There's a term for that period. Adolescence. It's supposed to imply some level of growth in independence and the abil…

Because that would come at the expense of making human lives better.

Compound interest shouldn't be the primary factor in rejecting a four to five digit loan when you have low or zero income.

The trap the schools set is nasty. But it meets the nasty expectations people had that the economic boom of the 40s-50s, where everyone could just keep going to college and getting…

Inflation where I live has driven entry level job wages much higher than 11 bucks. I haven't seen rent rise quickly to match it - where I've seen the most price gouging in response…

I was told such things too. I also can process numbers. I knew that taking on an extra cost I could not pay would not be worth it without a guarantee of a high paying job, which is…

If one could make a case for it, I wouldn't mind in these specific scenarios of parents coercing their children to sign contracts that the financial burdens be transferred to their…

The people I know making lower wages typically rent or live in places with not such a high expense. Their apartments are not as upscale as others are, but they are certainly livabl…

Who forced these students to take the loans, exactly? Do you have a list of names?

Did you consider that everyone might have been making a mistake when they equated taking on large loans with getting out of poverty?

And those who do not want to deal with the risk of going through school and not getting a better job to pay for the onerous loans can just remain in their economic class.

It does not take professional training to see the price tag of a student loan and to question if one can reasonably pay it off in the future. Certainly, someone equipped with the s…

The parents knew what they were getting into, still. They were making a decision knowing the consequences.

Anecdotally, I can name plenty of people near me who hold full time jobs without needing a four year degree.

But no one forced those people to take on those loans.

What would make it dystopian would be if this humanoid robot was then granted rights. As a servant, it could be useful.

The positives of easy translation seem outweighed by the negatives of giving biolabs easy protein hacking.

Did anyone force all those students to take student loans?

Both are asked by your various governments to spy on you. I am not privy to the most current technical details - if you go through old NSA presentations that Snowden revealed I am …

Google is bad, but every other company and your ISP and your hardware manufacturer is also probing your emails.

Doesn't explain why the big handful of tech companies all decided to work overtime on restricting content starting in 2016 and not earlier.

The power gained by their wealth is enough to make leaving the country easy, but not enough to "save" it, by any stretch.