> Us older people with wealth have strongly advocated for decades that they not take on the debt This is a lie, and I feel that you know it is. I graduated hig

> Us older people with wealth have strongly advocated for decades that they not take on the debt This is a lie, and I feel that you know it is. I graduated high school in 2009. There was tremendous pressure on students to be ready for a college degree. You were told it was absolutely necessary to compete in the new globalized economy. AP classes were offered so that you could transfer credits on entry-level coursework. SAT and ACT prep were offered by the school district. There were college spirit days and college fairs. There were signing days for athletic scholarships. You'll find most Millennials will recall much of the same if they came from a middle-class-or-above area. Of course, being middle class doesn't mean you can pay for college without debt. That's why they took it on. The idea of entering the trades was an afterthought to the point where there was a vocational center 20 miles away that serviced an entire suburban county's worth of high school students. Since it was right after the financial crisis, if you weren't going to college or going into a vocational program, you were going into the military. I'd say more people out of my high school class went into the military than vocational programs. They were trained, given a job for six months, and discharged because there was a massive pool of people, nationally, who wanted to join the military since they had no place else to go. > Of those who thought they knew better, why would we want to pay for their stupidity? See above. > But if we agree that we should pay for stupidity because that's the nice thing to do, why stop at college? What about the dumb kid who bought a Ferrari he can't afford? Are we going to pay for that too? Logically we should. There is no difference. This is comically obtuse. No one ever centered a state's high school curriculum around the idea of convincing a kid to buy a Ferrari. No one ever told the kid he'd be a nobody with no future earnings potential if he didn't buy a Ferrari. That's exactly what Millennials were told between 1995 and 2010. The Ferrari doesn't get exempted from bankruptcy because "you kept the skills you learned" from owning it. I'd much rather be in debt from owning a Ferrari than with a student loan. > ~60% of the population (in the USA) have not attended college. Why not let them reap the rewards of their choices? There are no rewards to having a large chunk of your population so indebted that they don't engage in the life milestones that allow the economy to grow for the next 20 years. That guy who was so smart as to avoid that liberal arts degree by going to trade school to learn how to be an electrician? He needs new housing and commercial buildings to work on if he'd like to earn a living and create more economic value than he consumes. If no one's building houses to start a family, and no one's building new businesses because the population isn't there to support it, he's just as screwed as everyone else. You're angry at the wrong people.