• Abracadaniel [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    obv it shouldn’t be this way but when I signed up I understood that was the deal if I didn’t pay so I don’t see why it’s “unconscionable”

    • Babs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      I was also a stupid teenager told that this was my only way to avoid flipping burgers for the rest of my life, so I signed up for student loans.

      Then in 2010 Obama overhauled the system to cut out the shitty private industry side of things, but gave no relief to people like me already locked into that system. Made it real fun when Biden teased loan forgiveness and I found out I wouldn’t even be eligible.

      But I’ve been paying my loans. I did AmeriCorps so I could afford to do so. I reckon I’ve paid more than the entire cost of my schooling by now, but that doesn’t matter because interest go brrrrrr.

      The whole student loan system is unconscionable.

    • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Because the entire student loan system was a generational scam sold to 17 and 18 year olds and the loans should be entirely forgiven