An entire generation was sold the idea that a college degree is the ticket to a decent job, where every adult in the lives of these kids were imploring them to

An entire generation was sold the idea that a college degree is the ticket to a decent job, where every adult in the lives of these kids were imploring them to take on tens of thousands of non-dischargeable loans. This was, intentional or not, a systematic selling of this generation to a 21st century version of indentured servitude, kneecapping a cohort of young adults who got to join the workforce during one of the worst economic downturns in US history and, during what would have been their prime earning years, a global pandemic which flipped industries on their head and displaced workers in a way we have never seen before. The people who say “I didn’t get loan forgiveness why would you?” are just horrifically out of touch with the rapid rise in cost of education. While they could support a full time credit load with a part time job, the only way to support a college course load after 2004 is literally having cash to pay for the course load up front. The entire system that led to this is farcical and belongs in a comic book along with the “fuck you I got mine” crowd because of how hilariously evil it is.