It is why I am for reform. I feel I should pay something back for what I did get, but that amount they want and how hard they’ve screwed us with horrible rates, and difficult or impossible bankruptcy options, shitty stagnant wages, rising costs of literally everything.
Trump doesn’t need to put this pain to this millions of borrowers. I don’t see him going after COVID loan forgiveness. How was that ok but this isn’t?
Student loans are a part of a scam system which have been ballooning out of control for decades.
John Oliver did a great segment about it.
Totally support this. These life altering decisions ‘provided’ to young adults, are force fed down your throat from everyone around you. Parents. Teachers. Everything in your world is school school school.
You trust that’s what has gotten you through and all the people around you.
They disbursed MY student loans through a DEBIT CARD. I could only use it on ATMs on campus. There was a fee for every withdrawal. Max limits too of course! So you’re paying to pay to pay! But screw us right? We have a lifetime. So charge us for everything you can think of and add it to the tab. I got into my third year before it wasn’t enough to cover me to eat. Tuition. A roof over my head. I had to get a job to make ends meet, when I would have preferred to finish my degree. I ended up having to work a lot. A lot more than I expected. I had to quit school to work full time just to keep up with normal life expenses.
Keep in mind you’re learning a LOT and making a LOT of mistakes during this time still too.
That only encourages predatory colleges, with predatory deals with card companies to distribute student loans. To stick us with everything, including ridiculously exorbitant textbook costs.
Now I’m saddled with that debt. It’s grown 1/3rd more than I ever borrowed.
I think it’s admirable we find heart even for ‘predators of the deep’. Though, I feel like that was still super dangerous.. like if it was hurt and accidentally hurt it trying to move it and it thrashes a tail or that massive head full of teeth… humans aren’t exactly agile in standing water like that.
Ofc, the desire to help internally is still there. I feel like I would have made a call to the coast guard to pull it out to sea more.
I don’t live there though, just working through the mental checklist of “what would I do”
You have to KEEP TEACHING the lesson. Because when you’re 25 years older, and kids are just coming into the world, they don’t ‘get’ how bad it is. They just hear it. I heard all about how WWII went, who was bad who was good blah blah.
Look now, we have Gaza.
Look now, we have Trump.
AfD in Germany.
Where do you think we failed (globally)?
Like, how have we (seemingly) made a 180 in just under 100 years?
Ooo! Can we add piranhas to the lake we’re building for him? Each of us gets to give him a paper cut.. then salt then lime juice. Then a slap.
Sorry I guess I got a little carried away…. Because I totally forgot about the alligators too!
Sorry, uh.. I didn’t mean run them at the same time. I had to have a DHCP server stand in for it when I had to take that device itself down (the pi). That was ages ago. But I was still starting out!
How much of that was seeing what all those decades actually DID, and a generation later realizing it needed to be changed.
Still it’s crappy we are so crappy with our home.
I do think we should work exceptionally hard to fix things here. Find real solutions to problems. Else what’s the point of going to other planets? We need those same skills to survive, terraform, geoengineer, know the potential for ecology, etc.
That, yes, and then the increase of prices just to kick you in the balls too.
But what pisses ME off, is how they doctor their downloads and replays. It grabs minimal, replays as much as possible, before getting something new. You’re literally paying to be in your own echo chamber.
Synchrony is a cancer.