I am sure that this thread will be immediately closed … “as a political rant.”
Maybe, it will simply be deleted, by those with the power to do so.
However: “it is not ‘a political rant,’” although by definition it does involve what would be called ‘politics.’
If you (once again) “merely exercise your Moderator prerogatives” on this matter, then you evade … and perpetuate … the very brutal economic realities of this situation:
“Why should I accept $140,000+ in student-loan debt, in order to achieve the educational plateau that cost my grandfather at-most a tenth as much, in order to compete unsuccessfully(!) for a job that I will never actually get?”
I’m sorry, but (on behalf of what would now be my grandchildren’s generation … if I had had them …) I have serious problems with that proposition. Problems that I cannot simply sponge away.
When I went to college, “the first big debt” that I planned-on was for my house, not my degree. And this house was an asset, which I sold at a profit.
I actually expected … and, actually, it was true … that my first-job would be waiting for me because “I was a college graduate.”
I never expected … nor did I ever expect my grandchildren to expect … that my job would be displaced by seventeen young men from … literally … ten-thousand miles away … in a two-bedroom apartment. (Nor did I ever expect seventeen human beings to accept such conditions, no matter where they came from. Which conditions I nevertheless personally witnessed.)
And, today, “I am not ‘cool with that.’”
And: if that is (nothing more than …) “a poltical rant, worthy to be summarily Closed,” then: So Be It.
“Houston, we have a problem here.” We simply can’t keep presenting, to a new and fresh-faced generation of hopeful artists, that we do not. If you’re going to take-on $140,000+ in debt, then at the very least you should have a house … and a profit … to show for it.