This happened in most developed countries, it's just that the effects on American millennials are so much more grave because they live in a society that has successfully been brainwashed to regard organized social solidarity as full blown communism.
One thing I don't get: Who *made* people take out enormous college loans to attend their expensive dream school to major in something that nobody will pay you to do?
I know plenty of people who would have loved to go to, say, Notre Dame or DePaul, but couldn't swing it financially so they attended really good state schools. They majored in things that have an economic future. So, when someone racks up $100K in debt (including some expensive spring break trips) to attend a private college and major in Modern Dance Theory or Gender Studies, and they want it to be paid for by taxing the ones who were more responsible in the choices (or even got a non-college job), I just don't get it.
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Another thing you don't get is that this is not about the very specific straw man you've been building here. Apparently people get into dept for "normal" studies at regular colleges or because they get ill. Not to mention the fact that wages have effectively sunken the last decades, and that there are countless people working three jobs and not really make weeks end.
Thanks for enlightening me with your point of view.
What I'm hoping to show is that there's a lot more than "OMG, the world today is so tough I need to resign myself to misery." I hope that people will avoid the stupid decisions that make life harder than it has to be, and also not dwell on the particular negatives that exist now and see all the good stuff that wasn't available before.
I know plenty of people who would have loved to go to, say, Notre Dame or DePaul, but couldn't swing it financially so they attended really good state schools. They majored in things that have an economic future. So, when someone racks up $100K in debt (including some expensive spring break trips) to attend a private college and major in Modern Dance Theory or Gender Studies, and they want it to be paid for by taxing the ones who were more responsible in the choices (or even got a non-college job), I just don't get it.
What I'm hoping to show is that there's a lot more than "OMG, the world today is so tough I need to resign myself to misery." I hope that people will avoid the stupid decisions that make life harder than it has to be, and also not dwell on the particular negatives that exist now and see all the good stuff that wasn't available before.