[lerpa]

> It seems like that argument easily ends up in the "educations that require significant debt are always useless" position, which is false.

That's not my position.

> "Reasonable" is a weasel word.

You can have a reasonable definition of what is reasonable ;-) It just has to do with the ammount of risk you're willing to take, yes, it involves personal risk.

But you can see, for example, in such and such people that get a degree are >70% unemployed or working in a different area that has nothing to do with it. Then well perhaps it's not a good choice if I don't have the liberty to do it just for the sake of it, without expecting money in return.

Some other career choices probably have better expected outcomes for the average Joe. So maybe if you need the money, chose that.

The bottom line is: it's just silly to live as if you were rich and but then after complain you don't have the money for it.