"The people who run the world care about one thing ..... MONEY. I work in health care and have seen a few millionaires on their death beds. It is sad how they think and try to buy their way out of it, and when they realize they are at their end they look to the people who they oppressed for so long for compassion and kindness.

When they do die they are finally equal and worth the same as everybody else.... any copyrights they have held during their life no longer matter!"

Education has become a commodity and it is increasingly out of the reach of the working class. So the only way for most young people to get an education is to become debt slaves.

Also, far from granting forgiveness of overly burdensome loans, government legislation insures that these loans can never be waived through bankruptcy. Also, unlike other creditors, student loan collectors can garnish wages without having to go to court to prove the legitimacy of the debt. Essentially student loan collection is not limited by any normal sense of due process, and is a kind of tyranny.

But you two assh-les want to smilingly condemn the student victims.

In an other example of apparent fraud, a law school is being sued for vastly inflating its job placement numbers for it's graduates, deceiving students into taking out heavy debt thinking they get well paying legal jobs to pay it of with. The are MANY other examples I could site, but Im just righting a comment here and not an article.

So it would appear to me that student loans are just one more example of the rigged financial racket that this countries financial sector has become. So IMHO I would not fault anyone who has been entrapped by this scam for leaving the country to get away from the oppressive debt, and start anew in a more just society.

Also here is a chart showing income vs tuition over the last 20 something years. How is this possibly sustainable? Welcome to the next financial bubble.

- The first is that of "(total) individual responsibility"

- The second is that all education, especially university education can serve for is to prepare people to make money, nothing else.

It also supposes that the USA, *the richest country in the world*, is in fact so incredibly poor that it cannot allow its citizens to study what they're interested in - it always has to be about immediate or short term economic gain. And of course all of this happens in a world where the best employment is in banks, advertising, PR and so on - basically, not doing actual productive work, just controlling other people's work, manipulating people and downright robbing them.

Frankly, I think a society where these principles rule would be a really, really shitty place to live, where people are not individuals with individual aspirations but just a more general type of cogs in a machine, always subjected to the whims of the "job market".

And finally, it's all bullshit anyway. The problem is not with education. The problem is with lack of jobs. Lack of jobs is a result of incresing productivity, increasing workload (working hours per day), work intensity and global competition. Any SANE society would recognise that if people don't need to work so much because socially necessary production can be done in 20 or even 10 hours/week (disregarding in this case the fact that agriculture and most other production but especially agriculture MUST become less "productive" and more "wasteful" with human labour because the price of labour replacement in terms of pollution and waste is just way too high) then they should NOT work as much and if they do not work, they would need to spend their time with something worthwhile - like, you know, studying and maybe even teaching for "fun", because we're, you know, humans with culture and not little fucking COGS whose most important job (sorry, it's "function", as the word "job" implies that the participant is human - while in this system most working people are just machines) is to keep a shitty wasteful and destructive economic production machine operational.

But instead, insane "liberal" societies blame the individuals (who are objectively powerless) for something they have no chance whatsoever to avoid. They should study so that they can work in - non existet and low paying shitjobs? You know what? I think that if those people have a few good years studying things they are interested in, it's worth it. They *will* get swallowed up in this fucked up world of shit later on anyway. At least they could catch a glimpse of what it could mean to be "human" in a civilised society.

In other words, why is it all right to turn talented people into fucked up financial "geniuses" robbing other people, but not all right to turn them into harmless history or philosophy buffs who are, at least, doing no harm? So many of the well-paid jobs that require university degrees are actually incredibly destructive - the problem is not with people learning "unnecessary" things but with smart people doing evil shit based on "good" and "worthwhile" (in financial terms) education.

What you (well, we, of course) need to do is not to reinforce and extend Western domination over and exploitation of the rest of the world. Forget "exporting" shit. Forget "access" to resources and trade. Forget "national interests" on the other side of the world. All bullshit. Build a society that stands in itself (as much as possible) and doesn't rely on other countries for "markets" and "resources" (material or human) and uses its *own* wealth for the good of *its own* people. And, you know, education itself is part of this, but not just (and not even mainly) as a creator of wealth but as a creator of happiness and "humanity" or whatever you may call a happy and fulfilling life.

Now that the the threat of socialism at home has been eliminated, the 1% want their bribes back. Without the USSR, without any real mass movement in the US, the 1% doesn't fear the masses anymore and so sees no reason to support public institutions and programs which benefit the masses.