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I had exactly the same reaction: higher education is overpriced and has perverse incentives, but these individuals hardly seem like the most deserving of compas
by appleflaxen 10y ago
I had exactly the same reaction: higher education is overpriced and has perverse incentives, but these individuals hardly seem like the most deserving of compassion for their circumstances.
> I think at this point I owe about $40,000. I really, truly, honestly don't want to pay it back.
No shit
> Sure, I realize the responsibility I took on when I signed the papers and agreed to take out the loans, but I should have never had to do it in the first place. I feel some sort of civic duty not to pay them back, as if my small protest will make any kind of difference.
He didn't have to; it was a choice.
Let's change the system of higher education, but lets also get some better standard-bearers.
- arcticfox 10y agoI love your assessment. These are the type of people that are hard to side with even when you fully agree with some of their ideas.
- throwanem 10y agoI find myself seriously wondering whether the Vice author intended readers to sympathize with his subjects, or despise them. Partly I think this might be just my bias, inasmuch as I opted against taking on a six-figure debt load as my first adult act, and have discovered that not going to college is hardly the kiss of career death it's made out to be. But I really don't think you have to be me to find someone who got his parents to co-sign that six-figure debt load, then skipped the country and left them holding the bag, almost beneath contempt.