flowerpower
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Medical professionals, especially psychiatrists, are having routine panic attacks and nervous breakdowns on a routine basis because of something extremely stupid someone encouraged them to do when they were 17 years old.
The way the landscape of legal profession has completely transformed has meant that the amount of actually practicing lawyers has plummeted dramatically over the last 20 years while the amount of kids under the age of 20 signing up for $150,000+ student debt has surged like crazy because these poor naive kids get stars in their eyes when they picture themselves as shiny rich barristers in 8 years time, which is about as commonplace now as someone moving to Hollywood and becoming a well known actor.
People who inevitably fail to meet their dreams and financial goals often go the teaching route - which means doubling down on their I'll gotten debt. Lotta suicides on that life path too.
The people defending student loan repayments are likely from a bygone era where university was a well known privilege that practically ensured that a person would have a lucrative, esteemed and secure career - that simply is not the case anymore.
Really? Yeah really.
It's ironic that a lot of these no nothing kids who sign up for 6 figure loans to study law will inevitably learn about unconscionable conduct in contract administration - which is exactly what these universities are doing to them.
Yes, 18 years old means you are technically an adult. But that doesn't mean you know anything about anything. Especially not what you're signing up for. And, at that age, they're usually guided by their parents and teachers who either don't have a clue what these kids should be doing with themselves at 18 or are completely out of touch with the tertiary education and entry level positions in careers in the 21st century.
Student loans are a huge problem facing society in the 2020s. The universities are the ones to blame. They deserve to eat it.
