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>>12843813
I don't know why you're so upset, these are all just a well-documented economic phenomena of the latter 20th century.

>>12843958
I can't, Alexa will hear me

>>12843967
This is a great point. If Boomers can really be faulted for anything directly it's that they pushed their children into going to college come hell or high water despite how bad of a deal it had become. Just like the US Dollar and the US Worker, the US University Graduate's market value had become suppressed by simple inflation by the early 2000s.

Despite the fact that these schools were using government mandated loans as a springboard to charge mortgage-tier tuition rates for attendance, the eternal Boomer put enormous pressure on their children to go, often threatening to kick them out of the house and ostracize them if they didn't, even if they had shit grades in highschool or were pursuing a major that anyone with common sense could have figured out had no place in an institution of higher learning.

Now as men become disillusioned and turn to the internet for education, it's women who make up the majority of college graduates and are even going to graduate school racking up more and more impossible to repay deb as consequence and all you'll hear about is how "and it's a good thing" that women are deliberately making themselves black holes of debt.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-men-are-the-new-college-minority/536103/

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/student-debt-just-hit-15-trillion-2018-05-08

>>4238626
this is for people 25 and over
30 years ago not as many people went to college, now vast majority go

if op isn't particularly smart or have someone else paying for their degree they shouldn't go into debt for it, at least become self sufficent and then save up some money, start doing a couple classes at a cc