Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt

Re:Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt by leoh on Thursday May 30, 2013 @06:12PM (#5795585)

You are missing the point. Face to face relationships are invaluable and are the most important part of a good education. In liberal arts, there aren't dozens of high-quality, responsible IRC chatrooms, say, devoted to the intricacies of Nietzsche like there are rooms devoted to a single programming framework.

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Re:Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt by dreamdu5t on Thursday May 30, 2013 @06:15PM (#5795600)

No, I'm not. Face to face relationships don't cost $30k+ a year. You don't have to go to school to meet people. If you're going into debt just to meet people then something is deeply flawed.

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Re:Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt by wonderzombie on Thursday May 30, 2013 @07:29PM (#5795923)

You're still missing the point. :) Repeated face-to-face conversations with experts and other students (i.e. a classroom learning environment) is not the same as sitting alone, in the middle of nowhere, in front of a computer.

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Re:Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt by kees on Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:13PM (#5796292)

I think you all miss the point. It is not about how he spend the money (in this case an education perceived to be not worth its money by a majority of you) but what he did to save this money. You could spend it on your next start-up or get inspiration to pay off your own debt by changing your living standards.

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Re:Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt by Crake on Friday May 31, 2013 @05:17AM (#5797572)

This isn't the pre internet age, though. There are plenty of people with degrees and advanced degrees you can find on meetup.com to enjoy IRL discussions with on a certain topic.

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