Re:Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own
by obstinate on Monday April 03, 2017 @06:17PM
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If debtors could get organized and all stopped paying at once, it seems likely that Navient would run out of money before they got the spigot turned back on.
The consequence of course would be that student loans would cease being made, or be made much less frequently. This would have effects, some good, some bad.
Re:Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own
by 55555 on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:43PM
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This is a pretty interesting idea. I have never heard of debtors banding together to negotiate lower debts before.
Re:Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own
by kazagistar on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:47AM
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I'm not sure what you hope to get from it.
Re:Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own
by tajen on Monday April 03, 2017 @06:19PM
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US has never had problems with putting 1% of their population in jail. If every student, even the children of billionaires, massively refuse to pay back as a group, the banks would be too happy to strike a deal with the children of billionaires in order to put the 99% others in jail.
Re:Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own
by wanderer2323 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:32PM
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"US has never had problems with putting 1% of their population in jail." {Citation needed}
Doesn't matter. As the saying goes: if you owe the bank $1,000, you have a problem. If you owe the bank $100,000,000, the bank has a problem.
Debtors as a group probably would have a great deal of collective bargaining power.