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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by ProAm on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:11PM (#15853230)
Education doesn't always need to have an ROI, sometimes it's just worth what you spend on it.
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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by kajecounterhack on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:29PM (#15853425)
The vast majority of folks can't afford something that expensive without an ROI. What's being discussed here is how our current system encourages getting into debt for it and how that's negative for our society.
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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by JBlue42 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:20PM (#15856117)
But American society as a whole encourages that behavior. It's not just education.
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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by gedy on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:25PM (#15853378)
For sure, but the issue is whether you should borrow so much that it becomes a public policy issue.
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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by ProAm on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:26PM (#15854897)
Who fault is that really? The banks and gov for over extending risky loans? Or the people who borrow? Probably both, but if the banks do not know the risk of over extending risky loans Im not sure what will ever be done.
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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by kdamken on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:32PM (#15855536)
It does when it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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