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You are being disingenuous when comparing spending too much money on your credit card to spending "too much" on education. I put "too much" in quotes because de
by bearjaws 7y ago
You are being disingenuous when comparing spending too much money on your credit card to spending "too much" on education. I put "too much" in quotes because determining what the "right" education to get for the future is impossible. There are some educations that are more reliable (economically) but we have no clue what the job market will look like in 20 years, yet alone 30-40.
Also don't even get me started on how we turned a literal requirement to survive (housing) into a "investment" asset (mortgages).
- malvosenior 7y agoWhy is that disingenuous? People put food and rent on credit cards all the time, do they not need those things? You need a place to live (as you say) so by your logic we should forgive mortgages right? It's crystal clear right now that "an interdisciplinary degree in religious and women's studies" has little to no economic value. That's always been the case and if you took out a huge loan to get that degree, you made an obviously poor financial decision that you alone should be on the hook for.
- djrogers 7y ago> You are being disingenuous when comparing spending too much money on your credit card to spending "too much" on education. Nothing disinenguous about it when 'student loans' can be used for 10s of thousands of dollars worth of 'cost of living' type expenses. I refuse to take any student debt proposals seriously until someone puts forth one that excludes non-tuition expenses.