Student loan borrowers skip payments: It's "an act of civil disobedience"
www.newsweek.com
As national student loan debt lies at 1.75 trillion, one in 10 borrowers said they won't be paying off their loans as a matter of principle.
  • argarath
    206·
    2 years ago

    It is absolutely HORRIBLE and immortal to have an investment that gains money of others being in debt. That is SO fucked up

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      121·
      2 years ago

      Welcome to capitalism.

      Inb4 all the MBA nerds come to chime in about why making money off of someone else’s failure is a good thing…

    • AutistoMephisto
      41·
      2 years ago

      It smacks of the subprime lending that caused the Great Recession all those years ago. History doesn’t repeat but it often rhymes.

    • guacupado
      1·
      2 years ago

      Especially when it’s funded through our own taxes.