What do you say to
this guy? Oh, you poor thing? Yes, it's a shame you can't get other people to pay for your education? Though, of course, he did, by attending a state school. The taxpayers of NY foot the bill for about 2/3s of it. That's not enough? Maybe his parents should kick his ass out.
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Poor kid, he got to go to college.
People like this guy really romanticize college. The purpose of college nowadays is to provide young people with 4 extra years of shelter so they don't have to grow up yet.
Also, does it not even cross his mind that if college is less expensive, more people will go to it and get degrees, and those degrees will become even less valuable? So there will be just as many people with the same problem that he is having right now. They might not have as much debt, but they'll have an even harder time finding a job. Most of the problems he is talking about are CAUSED by government regulation, not solved by it.
What a whiner.
He does point to something higher education could use, though: better guidance for students. This guy's situation is entirely predictable, and somebody should have told him early on that the career prospects for someone who is unwilling to "sell out" by working for capitalists are poor regardless of what degree the person holds.
He also doesn't get that being willing to work in a job you don't like after graduation is part of the implicit social contract of student loans.
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