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Originally Posted by Rapscallion St Croix
Perhaps all they need to do is learn to budget and calibrate their moral compass. I consider the following as analogous to folks owing money to loan providers. As a former landlord, I know that people can seem to find money to pay cable bills, cell phone bills, buy cigarettes, feed their animals, get tattoos, make payments on their motorcycles, eat mostly fast food, etc before paying their back rent because eviction takes a long time.
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These are 18-year-old kids, who have lived at home all their lives. Who has failed to teach them how to budget and calibrate their moral compass? Who failed to teach their parents that this was a responsibility they had to accept when they chose to have children?
It's so easy to blame the ills of society on the current generation of graduates. Not so easy to do some actual fact-checking to learn what it takes to get a college-required career these days though, and how long it takes for that career to pay off enough for the student to start reducing their debt.
Some people have done the actual fact-checking though. it's not a matter of "just need to" anything. There is not "just" or "simply" or "merely" here. It's a complicated mess created by a complicated system overseen by a complicated government.