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Originally Posted by RainMaker
My Dad told me how college was affordable enough that you could pay for it with just what you made in a Summer job (he was sorting mail/packages for the post office I believe).
What bothers me is that student loans are treated as some special entity by some where help should not apply. Watching people from some non-profit think tank (taxpayer subsidized) who took a PPP loan (taxpayer subsidized) and own a house (price propped up by taxpayers) complain about this is just eye-rolling. If college kids have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, so should everyone else.
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Push came to shove i could have propably paid it just by working as well, as said there are hardly any costs to pay the University and i also had very few expenses for books et al as 95% of what you need was provided (digital, library, in my case a 'film library').
But doing that on top of 25 hours of courses, not including prep work, as well as either exams or (in my case mostly) 2-4 papers over the break periods (2 semesters here, so 2 break periods) would then absolutely 1) be a disadvantage to students with rich parents and/or 2) result in needing longer to graduate. And no way in hell could one do a semester abroad or take (largely unpaid) internships to get practical experience at the same rate.
I don't really have much to say regarding the current question. I actually would agree that this is just as much nothing more than an inadequate bandaid as others would say it is "unfair" (or from the crazy parade going as far as somehow dangerous for, i guess, western civilization). But it also seems like there are a few other changes benefitting future students (well, unless MAGA nukes it eventually):
I don't see how "affordable college" is even possible with how reliant colleges have become on the high payment spiral but this seems an honest attempt to at least somewhat curb potential harm. In a somewhat roundabout way but still.
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Last edited by whomario : 08-24-2022 at 04:05 PM.
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