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by CuriouslyC 3348 days ago
Great, get a child locked into debt slavery from the start. Sounds like a good recipe for violent revolution.
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It's not slavery when the debt is assumed with informed consent. We currently force people to pay taxes, and that is vastly less consensual than a student loan. If being compelled to pay a student loan that you chose to take on is slavery, what is being forced to pay a tax debt that you never agreed to assume? As for violent revolution, the history of education before the state got involved does not suggest that would be the outcome.