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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
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.
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I disagree. It is not complicated. In our system, an 18 year old is an adult who can enter into a legal and binding financial contract. If they sign the contract, then they should be required to fulfill their part of the deal. Basic contract law. How is that complicated? And, nobody needs a college degree to survive.