Anonymous #1 4w

But it shows that we had it better and it was taken away from us, and that we should have the cost of college slashed and pour public money to it … and rectify the unfairness that it was ever **purposefully** made expensive in the first place.

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Anonymous .gaia. 4w

Of college were the same price (adjusted for inflation) that it was 70 years ago, it’d be a much better option. If you follow the rules of the cost-benefit analysis. Same benefit, less cost.

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Anonymous .gaia. 4w

Yeah sure. But those are still good statements. Getting into large debt if you can avoid it is not a good idea regardless of how much something cost in the past or how unfair it is. Avoiding crippling debt is good

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Anonymous #1 4w

Exactly! You’re exactly right. And that’s why we should revert the setup to how it used to be, and ensure that everyone who was unfairly charged can be forgiven. Because it never should age changed in the first place. Reagan should never have made those cuts, and now that we know how sinister and wrong they were, we should rectify that. It shows how debt is such a powerful tool and when you make debt a requirement, how harmful it is.

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Anonymous .gaia. 4w

*have

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Anonymous .gaia. 4w

Ok I think I misunderstood your post haha I thought you were trying to counter those statements in quotes and I was really confused how that was an argument against them lol

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Anonymous #1 4w

Keeping the system as it is and just constantly allowing these debt collection monsters to fester and simply handing money to indebted students to the hand to the debt collectors is stupid. We gotta change the system entirely to something resembling how it used to be when it was free or no cost, and ideally dismantle the debt collection monstrosities and use the profits they made off of debt collection to repay the students who never should have been put in debt in the first place

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Anonymous .gaia. 4w

*free or low cost

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Anonymous #1 4w

The people saying those statements are the ones who got to go to college for $7k a year working for $7.25 minimum wage. Now it’s $30k a year working for $7.25 minimum wage.

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Anonymous #1 4w

Yes it does indeed negate those statements

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Anonymous xi.jinping 4w

I’m just gonna preface that I 1000% agree with OP on their statement. And the statements they made in the comments. But I’m still struggling to understand how this negates very valid advice to not get into absurd debt you have no way of paying off. Colleges need to get back to being about education instead of businesses and we need to change the system entirely. 1000000%. But this still doesn’t mean it’s wrong to say don’t put yourself into crippling debt?

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Anonymous #1 4w

There are very few colleges in the U.S. that are designed to turn a profit. The problem isn’t that schools today are focused on the wrong things, the problem is we don’t prioritize higher education whatsoever from a financial standpoint. That’s why American universities have slipped from being the most prestigious on Earth in almost every field. If we allow it to continue, we will lose our substantial intellectual capital advantage

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