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But sometimes that’s life when you are young. Making bad choices after bad choices. This is a predatory system. My soft European brain can’t even compute how su

• d0gbread 6y ago
  Agreed. The take you're replying to is logical and true but with sympathy and not empathy. In practice, the kids making these decisions have no business making them, full information or not. The numbers are so foreign and the outcome so distant, while they haven't even ever left home. Further, not all kids making these decisions have strong families or networks that can help set them straight. Instead, all they hear is "college is critical" and accept on faith there's an ROI.
• Meph504 6y ago
  What villainy? The terms are clear, the real issue is how many people take on such massive debt without reading the terms or having a plan other than "it will work out."
• anm89 6y ago
  From an economic opportunities perspective I'd much rather be a young American than a young European from any country but Germany. The true villainy is the impossible situations a young Spanish or Italian adult is thrown into knowing there is no career prospects for them in their society and that they'll end up living in their parents house till their mid 30s
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