[robogimp]

It takes courage to admit that you are in the dirty default club, good on him. I am in the default club too, here's why:

In my country the two options after highschool were either to pay through the nose in student fees or not get an education, wind up in a shitty job. I chose the third way of taking the loan, getting a first class education then living in exile.

The baby boomers got a pretty sweet deal when it was their time to be educated but I don't think there is a great conspiracy to defraud our generation. There is however defiantly a rampant political shortsightedness as evidenced by many nations de-prioritizing education so as not to piss off retiree voters. When a such a large generation votes along self interested lines the resulting society is obviously warped to meet their needs, which aren't necessary the needs of the nation at large. I bet the current gilded era of retirement will be long gone before we get there.

Education is of immeasurable value to both the individual and to society, politicians are blind if they cant see that. I agree with the spirit of this article; that it's up to us to educate ourselves by any means necessary.

[davidgerard]

I dunno. Notice how education became really expensive once the people who got it free got into power.

[crdoconnor]

>The baby boomers got a pretty sweet deal when it was their time to be educated but I don't think there is a great conspiracy to defraud our generation.

The elites ruling over the boomers were terrified of domestic communists. They talked about defrauding their generation whe they were young (rolling back the new deal, etc.), but they felt too threatened to actually do so.

The elites of today do not feel threatened.

[fnordfnordfnord]

>The elites of today

*The Boomers

[crdoconnor]

Who would you blame for ramping up the availability of debt for students so that colleges could charge more?

A) Lobbyists for the financial industry and for profit college industry

B) Your Grandma