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Re:Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own by gech on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:15PM (#14029225)
Why can't we empower good institutions and disempower shitty ones, for the sake of humanity and the betterment of our species?
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Re:Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own by icebraining on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:11AM (#14031664)
Define "empower", "good" and "shitty". And then I'll tell you how it'll be gamed.
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Re:Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own by meddlepal on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:16AM (#14031695)
Because it's hard to care about the "betterment of our species" when most people live 55 to 75 years and a species has a evolutionary timescale.
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