Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns

Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by lsc on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:25AM (#18988032)

If you mean financial security, I think most Americans think you will work harder without financial security. It's just not a thing that most americans (at least once you factor in our privileging of rural votes) want our government to facilitate.

I mean, I personally think education is a great investment opportunity for the government; it's like those schools that give you an education and then take a bit of your income for a while, right? it seems like good free education would more than pay for itself.

But most people (or, at least most voting power) seem to disagree with me.

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Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by hoaw on Thursday January 24, 2019 @08:07AM (#18988261)

> If you mean financial security, I think most Americans think you will work harder without financial security.

I have no idea what people are thinking, if they are at all. Work primarily matters when there are no opportunities. Zuckerberg isn't the hardest worker of his generation. He found one of the best opportunities.

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