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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by voisin on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:57AM (#37643877)
Education has traditionally been a primary method for upward economic mobility. Once student loans became a thing, colleges jacked up tuition to put it out of reach of anyone but the super wealthy unless student loans were used.
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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by c_crank on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:57AM (#37643888)
But no one forced those people to take on those loans.
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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by voisin on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:33AM (#37644462)
Not explicitly but the choice is “stay in your economic class or invest in the only thing reliably proven to improve your future”.
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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by c_crank on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:35AM (#37644503)
And those who do not want to deal with the risk of going through school and not getting a better job to pay for the onerous loans can just remain in their economic class.
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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by HPsquared on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:12AM (#37645165)
People basically did remain in the economic class though. The school doesn't have much to do with it. Has class mobility significantly increased since the adoption of mass tertiary education?
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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by slt2021 on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:44AM (#37645718)
and why people invested noname colleges with degrees in psychology, english lit, gender studies?

and then act surprised when they get out with zero useful skills

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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by Daishiman on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:11AM (#37645155)
No one forced me to not try the one thing everyone says will keep you out of poverty.
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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by c_crank on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:21AM (#37645296)
Did you consider that everyone might have been making a mistake when they equated taking on large loans with getting out of poverty?
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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by Daishiman on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:44PM (#37663954)
I consider a society in which people are not given sufficient information to make intelligent choices for the future to be pretty dystopian.
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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by c_crank on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:47PM (#37668155)
Are you able to do arithmetic?
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