c_crank

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by c_crank 3y ago
Are you able to do arithmetic?
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by c_crank 3y ago
Going for a college drop is analogous to the lottery, because losers will end up further behind those that skipped the expensive degree and lost money to inflation.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I think a four digit loan is already on the high end when one also needs to get a car, find a place to live and to rent, with no savings. You arguing that it is consistently much higher makes my case against taking loans stronger, not weake
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by c_crank 3y ago
Why keep calling these people children past the age of twelve? There's a term for that period. Adolescence. It's supposed to imply some level of growth in independence and the ability to discern reality. Yes, these adults gave the
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by c_crank 3y ago
Because that would come at the expense of making human lives better.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Compound interest shouldn't be the primary factor in rejecting a four to five digit loan when you have low or zero income.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The trap the schools set is nasty. But it meets the nasty expectations people had that the economic boom of the 40s-50s, where everyone could just keep going to college and getting a high paying job and living it good forever. Some lessons
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by c_crank 3y ago
Inflation where I live has driven entry level job wages much higher than 11 bucks. I haven't seen rent rise quickly to match it - where I've seen the most price gouging in response has generally been on car payments and electricit
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by c_crank 3y ago
I was told such things too. I also can process numbers. I knew that taking on an extra cost I could not pay would not be worth it without a guarantee of a high paying job, which is not something offered by going to school. The younger gener
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by c_crank 3y ago
If one could make a case for it, I wouldn't mind in these specific scenarios of parents coercing their children to sign contracts that the financial burdens be transferred to their parents (parents who often tend to help pay such bills
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by c_crank 3y ago
The people I know making lower wages typically rent or live in places with not such a high expense. Their apartments are not as upscale as others are, but they are certainly livable.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Who forced these students to take the loans, exactly? Do you have a list of names?
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by c_crank 3y ago
Did you consider that everyone might have been making a mistake when they equated taking on large loans with getting out of poverty?
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by c_crank 3y ago
And those who do not want to deal with the risk of going through school and not getting a better job to pay for the onerous loans can just remain in their economic class.
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by c_crank 3y ago
It does not take professional training to see the price tag of a student loan and to question if one can reasonably pay it off in the future. Certainly, someone equipped with the skills needed to be accepted into a college that costs so muc
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by c_crank 3y ago
The parents knew what they were getting into, still. They were making a decision knowing the consequences.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Anecdotally, I can name plenty of people near me who hold full time jobs without needing a four year degree.
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by c_crank 3y ago
But no one forced those people to take on those loans.
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by c_crank 3y ago
What would make it dystopian would be if this humanoid robot was then granted rights. As a servant, it could be useful.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The positives of easy translation seem outweighed by the negatives of giving biolabs easy protein hacking.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Did anyone force all those students to take student loans?
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by c_crank 3y ago
Both are asked by your various governments to spy on you. I am not privy to the most current technical details - if you go through old NSA presentations that Snowden revealed I am sure you'll get the general idea of how it works.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Google is bad, but every other company and your ISP and your hardware manufacturer is also probing your emails.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Doesn't explain why the big handful of tech companies all decided to work overtime on restricting content starting in 2016 and not earlier.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The power gained by their wealth is enough to make leaving the country easy, but not enough to "save" it, by any stretch.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Those richest thirds of Russians are still under Putin's thumb.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>Counterpoint: neocons keep getting elected to Washington every other year. Because the choice given to a voter is this: Vote for a democrat, who destabilizes foreign countries as a matter of course, and puts their energy into rewriting
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by c_crank 3y ago
Many Americans would be happy to vote to stop destabilizing countries across the ocean, given the choice.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Those who leave are not capable of fixing their state, because that requires power, and those with power rarely leave.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>Calling him a superhero assigns him the moral value of things generally considered "good" Perhaps to braindead fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I didn't try and push the term. It was used by people further up in the

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